The Airmic coronavirus resource page is a useful listing of relevant information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Update
This coronavirus resource page has been updated and revised as of 26 October 2020.
Remote working/Return to work
- AXA XL: Let’s get started: Guidance for restarting idled facilities impacted by pandemic
- Belfor: Our tips for your restart
- Belfor: Disinfection of surfaces with biocontamination, such as viruses (COVID-19)
- BSI: Guidance on safe working during the COVID-19 pandemic (version 2)
- CIPD: COVID-19: returning to the workplace
- Harvard Business Review: 15 question about remote working, answered
- M-Files: Remote Working Document Management Benchmark Report [Free to download upon registering contact details]
- Marsh: The Practical Guide to Returning People to the Workplace Safely [free to download upon registration of details]
- McKinsey: Europe needs to prepare now to get back to work—safely
- McKinsey & Co: Reopening cities after COVID-19
- Nuffield Health: The effects of remote working on stress, wellbeing and productivity [free to download upon registration of details]
- QBE: Getting up and running post-COVID-19 closedown
- QBE: Managing human factors associated with return to work
- REHVA: REHVA COVID-19 guidance document, April 3, 2020
- REHVA: How to operate and use building services in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) virus (SARS-CoV-2) in workplaces
Governance and business outlook
- AM Best: Covid-19 Throws Spotlight on London Market Modernisation (2 June 2020) – [registration required to download]
- Aon: Government Aid: The Economic Antidote to COVID-19?
- AXA XL: The big pivot: how COVID-19 has changed collaboration and innovation
- BBC: Coronavirus: World sees highest daily increase in virus cases - WHO
- City, University of London: Business Model Response to COVID-19 [video]
- ECODA: Corporate governance in the time of coronavirus
- The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) – Coronavirus sinks global growth prospects for first half of 2020: Q2 global forecast 2020 [Available to download without charge, upon providing a business email address]
- The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): COVID-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession
- The Economist: The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics
- Financial Reporting Council: Company Guidance Update March 2020 (COVID-19)
- Harvard Business Review: COVID-19 Resource
- Harvard Business Review: and business: The insights you need from Harvard Business Review [Free to download, but requires readers to provide a billing address]
- KPMG: Hard times – UK economic outlook – June 2020
- McKinsey: The coronavirus effect on global economic sentiment
- McKinsey: Planning for uncertainty: performance management under COVID-19
- McKinsey: Responding to coronavirus: The minimum viable nerve center
- McKinsey: Economic Conditions Snapshot, March 2020: McKinsey Global Survey results
- McKinsey & Co: How a post-pandemic stimulus can both create jobs and help the climate
- McKinsey & Co: Coronavirus: 15 emerging themes for boards and executive teams
- McKinsey & Co: A leader’s guide: Communicating with teams, stakeholders, and communities during COVID-19
- McKinsey & Co: How growth can help Europe’s companies face the coming economic crisis
- McKinsey & Co: The great acceleration
- McKinsey: The coronavirus effect on global economic sentiment
- Ravenscroft: Likely winners in the post COVID-19 investment world
- Ravenscroft: Boscher's Big Picture - Long-term legacies of COVID-19
- Riskonnect: Life After Lockdown: A Playbook for Crisis Recovery, Resiliency, and Restarting Right [free to download upon providing contact details]
- Verisk Maplecroft - COVID-19: No breathing space for major economy stimulus
- World Economic Forum: 5 things COVID-19 has taught us about inequality
- World Economic Forum (WEF): Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 World
- World Economic Forum: The great reset
Insurance and claims
- Chartered Insurance Institute: The Chartered Insurance Institute puts in place plans to assist members and staff during the coronavirus outbreak
- Chartered Insurance Institute: Coronavirus update
- Herbert Smith Freehills: COVID-19: pressure points: practical tips for renewing your business’ insurance programme during the COVID-19 pandemic (global/UK)
- Lloyd's Market Association: New LMA clause ensures continuity of coverage in case of market closure
- Lloyd's Market Association: LMA introduces Coronavirus contingency clause
- AM Best: AM Best to Deploy Pandemic-Related Stress Test for Rated Insurance Companies Globally
- Association of British Insurers: coronavirus Q&A
- Insurance Business America: What are the broad geopolitical ramifications of the coronavirus
Risk and resilience
- Airmic and Control Risks: New challenges, new lessons – Covid-19 pandemic and the future of crisis management
- 2019 Airmic member survey - Emerging risks
- Airmic Guide: Complex Supply Chains in a Complex World
- Airmic White Paper – Standards: Supporting risk management and adding business value
- Airmic: GDPR – 2020
- Airmic EXPLAINED Guides: Crisis Management
- Aon: COVID-19 Response Planning Preparedness Considerations - Comprehensive Decision-Making Tool Kit
- Bloomberg: Risk Manager Is Suddenly a Hot Job
- Business Continuity Institute: Coronavirus topic hub page
- Business Continuity Institute: BCI Coronavirus Organizational Preparedness Survey [The research requires a login but is free to register]
- British Standards Institute: Risk management and business continuity, COVID-19 response
- Control Risks: RiskMap 2020 Special Edition
- Everbridge: Clarity Out of Chaos
- FM Global: Resilience Index 2020
- Herbert Smith Freehills: The Herbert Smith Team has developed a Risk Assessment Toolkit to assist businesses prepare their own office based risk assessments. It provides a framework for carrying out a risk assessment by identifying the main risks alongside relevant guidance. Please contact Howard Watson at howard.watson@hsf.com if this is of interest.
- INSEAD: A Crisis Management Blueprint for COVID-19
- Lloyd’s Register Foundation: Resilience insights gained in the face of COVID-19
- Marsh: COVID-19: Evolving Insurance and Risk Management Implications
- McKinsey: Report - the restart
- McKinsey: Responding to coronavirus: The minimum viable nerve center
- McKinsey & Co: How to demonstrate calm and optimism in a crisis
- McKinsey & Co: Planning for uncertainty: Performance management under COVID-19
- McKinsey & Co: Return: A new muscle, not just a plan
- McKinsey & Co: Ready, set, go: Reinventing the organization for speed in the post-COVID-19 era
- UK Financial Sector Market Wide Exercise 2006 Report
- Verisk: COVID-19 projection tool
- Willis Towers Watson: European Politics after COVID-19: How will the EU’s new recovery fund reshape the business and political risk environment in Europe?
- World Economic Forum (WEF): The latest COVID Action Platform virtual meeting
- World Economic Forum (WEF): COVID-19 Risks Outlook: A Preliminary Mapping and its Implications
- WEF-Marsh-Zurich: COVID-19 Risks Outlook A Preliminary Mapping and Its Implications
- Zurich: Risk insights podcast series
Reputation and trust
- Edelman Trust: Trust barometer special report: Brand trust and the coronavirus pandemic
- McKinsey & Co: Demonstrating corporate purpose in the time of coronavirus
- Raconteur: Is it possible to ‘retrofit’ purpose?
- RepTrak: RepTrak Insider: Reputation Lessons – COVID-19
People
- Airmic: Managing risk: The human factor
- Aon: Loneliness: How employers can support this growing social challenge
- Equality and Human Rights Commision: Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for employers
- Gov.uk: Working safely during coronavirus
- Hays: A new era of work - What to consider today & tomorrow [Free to download upon registering contact details]
- Hays: The world of work post-COVID 19: nine questions I’m asking myself
- Hays: How is the Covid-19 pandemic shaping sentiment towards the UK economy, employment outlook, skills needs and career prospects? [Free to download upon registering contact details]
- Hays: Differing hours and locations: How do you manage teams in a ‘hybrid’ world of work?
- Hays: Skills in demand for the new era of work [free to download upon providing contact details]
- HSE: Protect home workers
- Harvard Business Review: 15 question about remote working, answered
- International SOS: Looking after yourself during the coronavirus outbreak: psychological advice for employees
- Johns Hopkins: Coronavirus tracking map
- McKinsey & Co: Well-being in Europe: Addressing the high cost of COVID-19 on life satisfaction
- McKinsey Global Institute: COVID-19 and jobs: Monitoring the US impact on people and places
- Mercer: Mental health and the coronavirus [free to download upon registration of details]
- Mercer: Tips for a productive new groove
- Michelle Elstein: I am a self-leader: Find your brilliant
- Michelle Elstein: Are you ready to choose to move forward?
- Michelle Elstein: Moving forward and encouraging people to see this as a personal growth opportunity [video]
- National Academy of Medicine: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) News and Resources
- Willis Towers Watson: Can COVID-19 coverage be excluded under pandemic exclusions for corporate/private plans?
- Willis Towers Watson: Human capital roadmap
- Willis Towers Watson: Employer checklist for employee benefits
Legal
Cyber
- BAE: COVID-19 factsheet
- Control Risks: COVID-19 and cyber security
- Lloyd’s & KPMG: Protecting intangible assets: Preparing for a new reality
- McKinsey & Co: The COVID-19 recovery will be digital: A plan for the first 90 days
- McKinsey & Co: The Next Normal: The recovery will be digital
- McKinsey & Co: How COVID-19 has pushed companies over the technology tipping point—and transformed business forever
- NetDiligence: 2020 spotlight on ransomware (based on the 2019 cyber claims study)
- Raconteur: How to stay cyber-secure working from home
- techUK: Cyber security and advice repository
- techUK - Strengthening cyber security when working from home
- UK Home Office: Guidance – Coronavirus (COVID-19): fraud and cyber crime
- World Economic Forum (WEF): A second wave could lead to a 'public outcry' for digital tracing - government and business leaders on managing the coronavirus crisis
Others (scientific papers, etc)
- AXA XL: Let's talk podcast – Dr Keck discusses the origins and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
- BBC: COVID-19 – the impact of coronavirus on the environment
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Coping with a Disaster or Traumatic Event
- Imperial College: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand
- Imperial College: Report 13 – Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries
- Imperial college: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand
- McKinsey & Co: Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
- McKinsey & Co: Envisioning healthcare after COVID-19: An interview with Ara Darzi
- McKinsey & Co: On pins and needles: Will COVID-19 vaccines ‘save the world’?
- Princeton University: COVID-19′s silent spread: Princeton researchers explore how symptomless transmission helps pathogens thrive
- Swiss Re: Will our behavioural change from COVID-19 help us fight climate change?
- University of Warwick: The Case For Releasing the Young From Lockdown: A Briefing Paper For Policymakers