Author: Tom Wood | Date: 30/03/2021
Categories: General
As construction sites continue to cope with the third UK lockdown, construction-sector employers and contractors should focus on their Covid-19 employee safety protocols and not be reliant on thermal imaging systems. Some companies in the construction sector are continuing to point to the use of temperature screening products as being a means in which to control the virus’s spread and […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 23/03/2021
Categories: General
A shift in eco messaging in the world of plastics recycling could potentially have repercussions in boardrooms across the UK, highlighting why a particular type of insurance cover – Directors & Officers – is worth considering, should any managerial decision lead to future legal challenge. Similarly, the latest green thinking has implications for consultants, who might have advised plastics manufacturers […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 15/03/2021
Categories: General
The Turing AI Fellowships initiative, a collaboration between the UK Government and the Alan Turing Institute, has just announced who the recipients of its second wave of Turing AI Acceleration Fellowships will be. Financial grants will go to 15 Artificial Intelligence-focused innovators, located across the country,[1] from Southampton to Glasgow.[2] The awards follow the first round of fellowships, which were […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 09/03/2021
Categories: General
Accountants have been at the coalface of the Covid-19 business support initiatives, having to brief and advise clients, for many months, on the various Government support schemes that have been established to support them. But could any of this advice come back to bite accountants and what insurance is required, if it does? If recent guidance from the Institute of […]