Security guarding in the UK is a critical aspect of maintaining security of assets and public protection for those that supply, buy, and rely on private security. Across various sectors, including commercial, residential, industrial, and public places, security officers play a vital role in deterring crime, preventing unauthorised access, and responding to emergency situations. This RISCAuthority Security Bulletin was revised in 2024 to update the 2018 version and provides guidance on types of security guarding, the legislation covering the private security industry, and the security guarding landscape.

With the increasing dependence on electrical power in industry and commerce, many organisations need an immediate back up supply of electricity in the event of main power failure to run life safety systems or maintain business continuity. Fully revised in 2024, RC1 outlines practical measures that can be taken to reduce the number, impact, and likelihood of fires associated with the provision of emergency power generating equipment.

RC61 provides an informative introduction to common secondary (often termed ‘rechargeable’) battery technologies with an overview of their hazards and the key attributes that determine their selection in the workplace. Fully revised in 2024, this guidance relates to lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and redox flow batteries.

A credible understanding of the threat to the UK posed by terrorism is key to being able to effectively manage and price risk. This RISCAuthority Security Bulletin has been produced in collaboration with Pool Re, an Arm’s Length Body (ALB) of the UK Government, and centre of excellence on terrorism risk management and threat awareness in the insurance market, for its insured members, with a goal to build resilience against terrorism risk in an evolving and increasingly complex threat landscape.

A business continuity plan describes how a business will continue to operate during an unplanned process or service disruption. It should contain contingencies for every aspect of the business that might be affected, including manufacturing and business processes, assets, clients, business administration, business partners and other key stakeholders.

This supporting guide to the FPA’s Business Continuity Plan Template is intended to help businesses develop a framework to enable timely responses to disruptive incidents and the ability to continue maintaining services to customers despite the disruption. The main focus of this guidance is to help develop a response to enable the recovery of business after a disruptive incident.

Insurers’ experience shows that the occurrence of water damage is one of the most prevalent causes of claims on construction sites. Produced with the Construction Insurance Risk Engineers Group (CIREG) and endorsed by the London Engineering Group (LEG) and the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE), this Joint Code of Practice aims to help reduce losses associated with escape of water (EoW) events and subsequent project delays during both the pre-construction and construction phases.

LPC Technical Bulletin TB203 considers insurer requirements for servicing and maintaining automatic sprinkler systems. Together with the ‘Sprinkler System Service and Maintenance: Guidance, Records and Checklists’ document, it provides best practice for sprinkler system maintenance to ensure the system will perform as intended when called to do so.

The proposed use of Massive Timber Systems can offer significant advantages in terms of cost and sustainability, although presents challenges for those asked to insure them. IQ6 seeks to seeks to elicit information that could be useful in engaging with insurers at the design and proposal stage of building planning, and focuses on the known sensitives of wood as a structural building material to the insurance perils of fire and water exposure.

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The proposed use of Massive Timber Systems can offer significant advantages in terms of cost and sustainability, although presents challenges for those asked to insure them. IQ6 seeks to seeks to elicit information that could be useful in engaging with insurers at the design and proposal stage of building planning, and focuses on the known sensitives of wood as a structural building material to the insurance perils of fire and water exposure.

An interactive version of this pdf is available here.

Green or Living Walls are becoming a familiar feature of the built environment. Many Living Walls are of a scale and location that presents no additional risk to the scenario, but others, applied at larger scale to a building, might have the potential to exert great influence on the safety and insurability of a building if not properly designed and maintained.

This guide provides a comprehensive review of the core principles of risk control for Living Walls and an in-depth questionnaire that allows the opportunity for the specifier, façade designer, or architect to describe the proposed Living Wall system to any authority having jurisdiction.

An interactive version of this pdf is available here.