Emergencies can develop suddenly and without warning. They can threaten and disrupt your business, and impact upon you and your staff.
Having invested heavily in your business, you need to ensure it remains safe, secure and viable.
You should consider what impact would it have on your business if:
- there was a power/utility failure
- you had a shortage of staff
- your building was damaged
- your suppliers or contractors let you down
- you lost digital data
Being better informed and better prepared to deal with emergencies has a wide range of benefits and is good business practice. It also reassures your customers and suppliers that you take the resilience and security of your business seriously: it is good for you, your staff, your business and your reputation.
Preparing for risks to your business
You should get to know the risks in York and North Yorkshire and sign up for alerts and warnings via Prepare.
Other alerts are available for:
- weather, see UK weather warnings via the Met Office
- floods, see Flood alerts and warnings from GOV.UK
- cyber security, see Early Warning from National Cyber Security Centre
- adverse temperatures, see Weather-Health Alerting System from GOV.UK
Business continuity assistance
According to the Business Continuity Institute, business continuity is often described as ‘just common sense’ - taking responsibility for your business and enabling it to stay on course whatever has occurred.
Under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), we have a duty to work with local businesses to develop their understanding around business continuity.
The aim is to have the ability to cope during an emergency and get things back to normal quickly and easily.
Make a business continuity plan
To assist with understanding risks and help you get ready for an emergency visit the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (NYLRF) covering York and North Yorkshire, and use the template to create a plan, whilst refering to:
- NYLRF's 'Get ready for an emergency'
- the governments 'Business Continuity Managment Toolkit' - portable document format (pdf) file on GOV.UK
Contact our Emergency Planning Team for further advice and support.
Also see
- People and communities
- Information for businesses
- Emergency contacts
- North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (NYLRF)
- Get prepared for emergencies