UK Businessses are constantly, and in many cases unknowingly, under threat of both major or minor disruptions that could cost them large amounts of money through employees not being able to continue working, unless they have sufficient continuity plans in place.
Here are just a few very recently experienced examples from around the UK (which I will keep updated on a regular basis) in which businesses have been at risk of disruption which would prevent their employees from getting to their desks or continuing to work in their offices:
• Severe snow: Febrauary 2009, January 2010
• Swine flu pandemic, seasonal flu and Norovirus outbreaks
• Threat of flooding e.g. Cumbria in November 2009, Tooley Street Flooding April 2008, May 2009
• Exclusion zones enforced e.g. gas explosion in Shrewsbury on 3rd January 2010
• Public Transport disruptions for commuters e.g. fire on a commuter train in South East London on 7th January 2010
• Lack of toilet facilities forces buildings to close their doors due to Health and safety regulations
• Lack of IT and Telecoms services in a particular office make employees unable to continue working e.g. when a construction drill went through cables at the 2012 Olympic site in East London taking out communications for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses for days
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