AKT blog

In response to the pandemic and our clients’ needs, AKT developed some online programmes to enable companies to maintain their safety training through these difficult times. Filming on location would’ve been tricky so we used a greenscreen studio and added the backgrounds in post.

I visited the North Sea Memorial Rose Garden in October 2018 before we delivered our very first Piper Alpha workshop in Aberdeen, and seeing the 167 names on the plinth had a profound effect on me.

Having been in our Waterloo office for 9 years and outgrown it, the decision was made in November 2019 to give our 6 months’ notice and look for new premises. We were days away from signing the lease on a great new office when Covid-19 came along and changed everything.

To ensure that all our associates still feel connected to AKT and to each other, we started holding a virtual Coffee Hour every Thursday morning.

We delivered our last live workshop, an iMPACT induction session at Heathrow, on March 11th. On March 16th AKT made the decision that everyone in the office should work from home until the Covid-19 situation was resolved, and on Monday March 23rd the first lockdown began.