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Maintaining a Healthy Workstation When Working from Home
With a large percentage of the UK’s workforce now working from home as a result of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, it has become more important than ever to consider the home working environment and associated risks to your employees’ physical and mental health. Employers have a duty of care to...
COVID 19 Business Continuity
Business continuity in COVID 19 Business continuity is more important than ever now that COVID 19 has caused a worldwide lockdown and business operations have been forced to change. In this blog you will find all the information you need on Robison & Co’s business continuity plan including how to...
Organisational Resilience
In the event of a disease outbreak, all organisations have a key role to play in managing the risks to the health and safety of employees/volunteers and maintaining critical services. Below is a simple 10 minute business continuity self-assessment based on a disease outbreak. The aim of the assessment is...
The benefits of D&O insurance
6 Tips for Business to avoid Underinsurance
Cybersecurity Trends in 2020
This year, cybersecurity concerns are on the rise as hackers become more aggressive and technology advances. If your business is reviewing its budgets and strategies for 2020, Robison recommends investigating these cybersecurity trends to identify how they might affect your company. Investors In 2020, financial investments will be affected by...
How Manufacturers Can Manage Their Risks Through Insurance and Non-Insurance Strategies
As a manufacturer, it can be difficult to calculate the cost of losses and the degree of risk. If your business is faced with a product recall or downtime of machinery, are you equipped to keep trading without incurring loss of revenue, customers or reputation? What is a Risk Management...
Well-Being Initiatives in the Workplace
Well-Being Initiatives in the Workplace What is well-being and why is it so important in the workplace? Well-being is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy”. As well as referring to physical happiness, well-being includes mental wellness, satisfaction and how people evaluate...
Cyberattacks: How to Protect Your Business
A successful cyberattack can cause significant damage to your business. Reliance on a variety of IT equipment such as PCs, laptops, cloud-based systems and smart devices means that virtually all businesses are vulnerable and at risk of losing customer data, employee details and commercially confidential information. However, it is not...
Specialist Insurance for Breweries: What You Need to Know
The manufacture of beer is a volatile industry, with both micro- and larger breweries facing significant risks which are specific to the production, storage and transportation of craft beer. All breweries should have general business insurance policies such as public liability insurance to cover the cost of legal action if...
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Insurance Industry
Experts predict that artificial intelligence (AI) could transform insurance customer service and personalisation, with 75% of executives believing that AI will transform or significantly alter the industry in the next three years. The ability for AI to enhance existing tasks like customer service with technology such as ‘chatbots’ in messaging...
UK Top Tips to Prevent Phishing Attacks from Robison & Co
Three Advantages Of Using An Insurance Broker
The Impact of Brexit on the UK Insurance Industry
The Impact of Brexit on the UK Insurance Industry The uncertainty surrounding Brexit is having significant ramifications on many UK industries, including the insurance market, impacting both businesses and individuals nationwide. Currently all of the possible outcomes are pure speculation, but the possibility of a no deal scenario is casting...
Improve the Security of your High Net Worth Property
Why you should invest in the latest security measures Recent studies have shown that homes with inadequate or limited security measures in place are five times more likely to be burgled than those utilising simple security techniques and technologies, with properties most commonly broken into during the day when the...