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Here at Creative Risk Solutions, we understand that commercial motor insurance clients have two core needs – keeping their vehicles and drivers on the road earning money for the business, and ensuring premiums stay as low as possible. To achieve these goals, it is important that all employees behind the wheel demonstrate good driving practice when out on the road. It is also imperative that their health conditions are known and monitored.

Events in the boardroom fascinate viewers of TV’s ‘The Apprentice’, but a fate worse than merely being fired hangs over directors, non-exec directors and managers who directly influence company strategy and day-to-day operations in the real business world.

Uncertainty over any deal with Brussels coming to fruition is one more issue British businesses could do without.

The UK Cyber Centre, NCSC, established in 2016 to protect the UK from a cyber-attack – something viewed a threat as dangerous to the UK as terrorism – has prevented 1200 attacks in the last two years, according to its annual report.

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By 2030, it is suggested that there will be 76,000 drones in UK skies – a Sci-Fi lovers fantasy perhaps, but a phenomenon that will be very real and predicted to drive a 3.1% increase in productivity, as well as delivering a saving to the construction industry of £3.5 billion.

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The pressure on businesses to cut out the plastic waste that pollutes our oceans – as dramatically highlighted by Sir David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II – has intensified month after month, but for those willing to provide alternatives to plastic, opportunity knocks. (more…)

Putting some environmental claims behind its product has landed giant ice cream brand, Ben & Jerry’s, in hot water. A consumer advocacy group, The Organic Consumers Association, says Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, is misleading the consumer when it comes to its ‘green’ statements.

The association alleges that the big-name brand cannot claim commitment to a clean environment and high animal welfare standards, as most of the milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream production does not meet its standards for animal care and labour practices. It casts further doubt on the brand’s advertising claims, by alleging that the farms which supply milk for the product range are polluting two lakes.

Whilst we have no idea what will result, particularly as Ben & Jerry’s is maintaining a wall of silence, this case highlights how false claims and trade descriptions can cause issues in any type of marketing and not just food product marketing.  (more…)

Serious motor incidents involving HGV drivers always make the headlines, whilst a company car driver who carries out a motoring misdemeanour that negatively affects other road users can bring instant shame on the company name. A few years ago, preventing eventualities like this, which could conceivably have been avoided, would have seemed an impossibility in many cases. In the new digital age however, there are solutions that can help mitigate such risk. There are now many tools that are adding value by analysing driver behaviour on the road, checking licences and the number of points accumulated, noting the severity and type of offence and logging types of incident in which drivers had previously been involved.

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