Author: Tom Wood | Date: 09/05/2025
Categories: General
Carbon monoxide poisoning is a health and safety risk that can easily slip under the radar due to the silent, odourless, often undetected threat posed by this hazard. People lose their lives to carbon monoxide poisoning and around 4,000 people a year need emergency medical treatment. This is often due to poorly installed or maintained gas appliances in which the […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 25/04/2025
Categories: General
The move to ‘green’ businesses is increasingly being driven by a desire to improve ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance – a business practice standard increasingly important for corporate reputation. The British Business Bank says ESG measures a business’s impact on society and the environment whilst also demonstrating its transparency and accountability. Businesses falling short of expectations could face both […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 11/04/2025
Categories: General
Business survival and reputation management are inextricably linked. A 2020 survey found that 63% of executives believe reputation defines their business’s market value. In the past 20 years, it has become ever more important to safeguard reputation. As the Harvard Business Review noted in 2007, “In an economy where 70% to 80% of market value comes from hard-to-assess intangible assets […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 28/03/2025
Categories: General
Businesses depend on technology for everything, from storing data and facilitating transactions to managing customers, keeping track of employees, communicating with suppliers, and so on. However, this ‘digital dependence’, coupled with the growing sophistication of cybercriminals, leaves many businesses vulnerable to cyber attacks. Worse still, many remain blissfully unaware of their own vulnerabilities until it’s too late and the damage […]