Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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CBI, 23rd February 2021
Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
This session will help support you through the next phase, giving you expert insight and intelligence to continue adapting, and providing the guidance you need to restart and boost your business, and build resilience for the new normal.
Lloyd’s Register, 16th February 2021
Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
[Free to read full report upon sharing contact details] Lloyd's Register Foundation and the Resilience Shift have developed 'Engineering A Safer Future', a series of conversations as an antidote to the pervasive online 'noise' that confronts us as we seek serious discussion and meaningful insight into the impact of Covid-19.
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Lloyd’s Register, 14th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This report from Engineering X – a new international collaboration supported by the Lloyd's Register Foundation – shows the scale and complexity of the problem of the open burning of solid waste is poorly understood, and a diverse and inclusive community of practice needed to address the many safety challenges.
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Kennedys, 1st January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 42 (22nd January 2021)
Focuses on the important task of looking at the road ahead in order to support businesses in their strategic decision making – from the new cyber threats which will become more apparent in a world where digitisation has accelerated, to the need to redefine health and safety ‘at work’ in a world.
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Lloyd’s List, 6th October 2020
Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
Christos Chryssakis, Business Development Manager at DNV GL, and Narve Mjøs, Director of DNV GL’s Green Shipping Programme, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to carbon-neutral fuels.
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Airmic, 13th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 35 (20th November 2020)
Airmic's resident geopolitical expert Alex Frost and Dr Carrie Nordlund, Associate Director at the Annenberg Institute, Brown University, to discuss the results of the US presidential election, the current state of play and what this all means for geopolitical risks.
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Airmic, 26th October 2020
Friday Reading Edition 32 (30th October 2020)
Alison Moriarty, Fleet Risk Director at DRiiVE Consulting, and Mark Cartwright, Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention at Highways England, to discuss the evolving risks associated with motor fleets, how they can be addressed and why they need to be moved up the risk register.
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CIPD
Friday Reading Edition 26 (18th September 2020)
As an employer, you would still be under legal obligations to ensure the decisions you make in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) do not directly or indirectly discriminate against employees with protected characteristics.
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McKinsey & Co, 20th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 19 (31st July 2020)
The experience of cities suggests that successful reopening requires a conservative, staged approach, beginning at virus levels near zero – coupled with many safety measures for public transport.
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QBE, 12th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Employers will need to be sensitive to the challenges faced by their workers and will need to plan and organise their start-up to take into account human factors, which may predicate the potential for increased accidents and incidents.
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