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.
Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
The Guide in question, as discussed during the Airmic LIVE session.
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
The Covid-19 pandemic can bring added complexity in preparing your business for hurricane season. Along with typical precautionary measures, taking steps in advance can help ensure your business is ready with the necessary supplies and information to help protect your property and your employees.
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Friday Reading Edition 66 (9th July 2021)
This white paper outlines a range of practical ways that UK companies can prepare for natural disasters abroad, prevent their operations being affected, where possible, mitigate the impact when a disaster occurs, and restore their business to full operational capacity.
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
In this session, recorded 16 June, the CBI reviewed the latest announcements from government on the covid roadmap and looked in-depth at international business travel.
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
The digital technologies and systems created today are introducing both far-reaching opportunities and challenges alike for security professionals and business leaders. This makes it more and more crucial to adopt a holistic view of how the intertwined global digital ecosystem of tomorrow may impact your organisation and its security. Fine tuning risk management strategies to navigate these shifting tides in the global digital threat landscape is essential.
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UK Economic Outlook Text
Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
As restrictions are lifted and consumers flock back, we are expecting a robust recovery ahead. Some sectors, such as manufacturing and construction, have already recovered most of the ground lost last year, while for sectors such as hospitality and personal services, the big times are now.
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
As travel opens up, how are businesses protecting employees, and how are individual travellers staying safe?
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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
Many people have been trying to understand the nature of hard-to-detect risks or uncertainties. After Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently coined “unknown unknowns”, people started using quadrants of knowledge (i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown) to understand and explain the nature of risk. But this study reveals that many of them were not truly unidentifiable. This study develops and suggests a model to characterise risks, especially unidentified ones.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
From the start, the CER, a think tank, foresaw a Canada-style free trade agreement rather than a closer economic relationship, and were always optimistic that deals would be done, on both the Withdrawal Agreement and the subsequent Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA). What was perhaps under-estimated is how speedily the UK-EU relationship would turn sour.
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Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
[Subscription required] A different view, in the context of the poor results of President Macron’s party in France’s regional elections last weekend.
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