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As wildfires continue to rage across Europe, Guy Carpenter is warning that while insured property losses have so far remained relatively limited, the wider economic impact of the fires is expanding.

New non-statutory guidance aimed at strengthening resilience in the UK has been published today by the UK Resilience Academy. The guidance has a dedicated focus on strategic resilience leadership, and is designed to help incorporate resilience competencies into recruitment, assessment and leadership development for senior roles.

Managing general agent Acies MGU has announced the launch of TEDmar International, a new MGA specialising in ports and terminals. Led by Mark Trevitt and Charlie Newman, the new offering is supported by a consortium of Lloyd’s capacity and offers a full package of cover for ports and terminals operators and port authorities.

Great Britain remains one of the safest places in the world to work, according to new analysis published by the Health and Safety Executive. A total of 126 workers were killed in work-related incidents across Great Britain in 2025-26. Excluding the coronavirus pandemic years between 2019-20 and 2021-22, this provisional figure is the lowest recorded in a single year, compared with 217 deaths in 2005-06 and 495 in 1981.

The Health and Safety Executive has taken its first enforcement action under a nationwide inspection programme targeting the engineered stone sector, with several businesses ordered to stop work immediately after failing safety inspections.