Fire picture kindly supplied by NSW Fire Brigade

 Ask yourself these questions:

  • If something brings your business to a standstill, how long will you survive?

  • What will your competitors do?

  • What will your customers do?

  • What will your staff do?

What could constitute such a disruption?

  • Power outage,

  • Fire,

  • Flood,

  • Storm damage,

  • Theft,

  • Computer virus,

  • Disruption or even collapse of supplier,

 

  • Loss of key customer,

  • Loss of key people,

  • Equipment breakdown,

  • Changes in Government policy,

  • Terrorist action, or

  • Anything.

 

 Accident picture kindly supplied by NSW Fire Brigade

Simply watch the nightly news or read the daily newspaper.
 Each are filled with stories of businesses that were operating successfully for years, only to be wiped out in an instant.

But isn't that why we have business insurance?

Whilst your insurance may (eventually) provide you with a nice comforting cheque, it doesn’t tell you what to do the morning after the event.  Nor will it necessarily allow you to get your business operating again, and it cannot guarantee to bring back your customers, or your staff.  Simply put: insurance only goes so far!  Just as you needed more than money to start and build your business, so too do you need more than an insurance cheque to recover and rebuild your business after a disaster.

Disasters can be unexpected

You owe it to your family, your employees and most of all yourself to be prepared for the worst and to have an action plan at hand.

The best defence is a good offence. 

We believe that the best defence is to develop an Integrated Risk Management and Business Continuity Plan. This allows your business to go onto the offensive in two ways:

  • To start with, we work with you to identify the risks that may threaten your business and develop counters to allow them to be avoided or at least mitigated.

  • Secondly, in the case of events that are unforeseen or unable to be avoided a Business Continuity Plan is developed that will provide your business with the means to recover from the setback, and to continue operations at a productive level until you can resume business as usual.

Reduce your insurance premiums.

The Insurance Council of Australia have stated that "By identifying and managing potential risks, a business may be rewarded with lower insurance premiums".  An Integrated Risk Management and Business Continuity Plan may help you do this.

A solution tailored to your business.

Our consultants take the time to understand your business’s particular needs and characteristics.  We work closely with you and your staff to develop a solution specific to your business.  The result is a plan that you are comfortable with, and that works.

 Out of Business?

All businesses plan for success.
Long term, successful businesses also plan for failure!

Discover how we can help you to become prepared.  Call us on CompanyPhone, e-mail  CompanyEmail, or make use of our contact form.

We also provide the following related services:

  • Crisis Management – If necessary, we offer to actively coordinate your organisation’s response to a crisis and assist you until you can resume business as usual. 
    Contact us for more information.

  • Threat Assessments – If requested, we can simply make an assessment of some of the threats your organisation may be facing and provide this in a report to you. 
    Contact us for more information.

  • Review of existing plans – If requested, we can review any existing plans/processes put in place by you and provide an independent assessment of your preparedness to deal with contingencies. 
    Contact us for more information.

For answers to frequently asked questions about our services, click here.