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Businesses across UK PLC need to take action to protect themselves where ever possible from the crisis caused by Volcanic Ash. Doing nothing is not an option!
First thing on Monday morning, or better still before.
1. Check out the locations of your critical staff. Are they stranded abroad after the school holidays with no flight and no hope of a flight for at least a week? Thousands are especially if in North America!
2. Pull out that Pandemic plan you created last year, in it should be the details of their deputies, details of the location of passwords needed by their team to continuity business in their unexpected absence. Customer details, a route to their diary, electronic or desk etc, etc. (No Pandemic plan! Start a plan now!)
3. Understand the critical work they were returning to. Losing staff for the duration of this event could be equivalent to losing them to a severe bout of flu.
4. Get their team or colleagues together and protect that essential project they were working on.
5. Arrange a meeting of the organisations 'Incident Management Team' understand what the threat to business is across board. Understanding the threat enables you to deal with issues and should discount any surprises.
6. Contact critical suppliers, understand their exposure to this threat, seek alternative suppliers where possible.
7. Contact customers, can you help them? Turn a possible negative into a positive.
8. Communicate with stakeholders, don't let rumour damage your share value.
And don't forget the value of a resilient supply chain in such times of crisis. Check out www.brisc2010.com
For more advice contact CoDRIM
To mark the end of Business Continuity Awareness Week - CoDRIM launches exciting new conference
Business Resilience in the Supply Chain (BRiSC2010), is a not to be missed, exciting and unique conference which brings together the core elements upon which the resilience of any organisation is built. Packed with high quality speakers who present their personal knowledge, experiences and expertise for the benefit of all delegates.
High Quality, High Value, Low Cost! This is a conference you can afford to attend and cannot afford to miss!
Organised by CoDRIM and Supported by the BCI.
September 15th 2010, Madejski Stadium, Reading