{"id":629,"date":"2020-05-01T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/?p=629"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:46:58","slug":"bcrre-and-rail-alliance-promote-rsg-coronavirus-taskforce-industry-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/2020\/05\/01\/bcrre-and-rail-alliance-promote-rsg-coronavirus-taskforce-industry-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"BCRRE and Rail Alliance promote RSG Coronavirus Taskforce Industry Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE, the Rail Alliance and representative of the RSG and UKKRIN talks about the importance of the recently launched survey and how your input is most vaulable.<\/p>\n<p>The Rail Supply Group (RSG) has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a>\u00a0 seeking the views of businesses across the rail supply industry on the impact of COVID-19 on their organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Government has asked the RSG to form a Coronavirus Taskforce to develop a strategy that will deliver the <strong>fullest, fastest<\/strong> and <strong>best recovery<\/strong> for the rail supply chain.\u00a0 The starting point is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a> to collect the views of relevant businesses in order to build a clear picture of the current situation and the areas of activity needed to support an effective recovery.<\/p>\n<p>I sit on the RSG Council as the representative of the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network as well as promoting the views of SMEs from the Rail Alliance community.\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a> is an important piece of work in establishing how we can ensure the industry is able to bounce back from the shock created by COVID-19 which has affected all of us.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a> will improve understanding about how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting on the rail supply industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>determining the outlook and how business certainty, sustainability and survivability is being impacted;<\/li>\n<li>providing tangible and specific evidence, actions and steps needed to aid and speed the best possible recovery;<\/li>\n<li>suggesting potential barriers that might risk recovery or hinder progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a> is being sent to businesses across the UK rail supply industry and being promoted via social media to encourage as wide a range of supply chain businesses to take part as possible.\u00a0 The results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">survey<\/a> will inform RSG\u2019s future plans and actions &#8211; specifically, in charting a clear way forward for the rail supply chain, including adapting the Rail Sector Deal to the impact of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Your views matter and will help us to develop an effective strategy to help the rail supply industry come through this crisis \u2013 I urge you to give us your views to support this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the survey and accompanying information here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsgtaskforce.org\">www.rsgtaskforce.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-630\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-1536x618.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-2048x824.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2020\/05\/Web_Web_Banner_2-250x101.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE, the Rail Alliance and representative of the RSG and UKKRIN talks about the importance of the recently launched survey and how your input is most vaulable. The Rail Supply Group (RSG) has launched a survey\u00a0 seeking the views of businesses across the rail supply industry on the impact of COVID-19 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/2020\/05\/01\/bcrre-and-rail-alliance-promote-rsg-coronavirus-taskforce-industry-survey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BCRRE and Rail Alliance promote RSG Coronavirus Taskforce Industry Survey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bcrre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}