Understanding risks

Understanding risks

Preparing for various risks is essential to ensure the safety and resilience of your business, community, and personal life. In this section, you will find valuable information on how to handle severe weather events, protect against malicious attacks, manage health emergencies, prevent fire hazards, and deal with utility disruptions. Our comprehensive guide provides practical steps and insights to help you stay prepared and secure. Engage with us to explore these risks in detail and ensure you’re ready for any major emergency.

  • Severe weather – Chat to us about how your business, community or you prepare for major flooding, storms, extreme cold and hot weather and droughts.
  • Malicious attacks – Find out more about how you could prepare for major emergencies involving terrorism, including Martyn’s Law, and the ever-increasing threat of cyber-attacks.
  • Health – There are lots of things businesses, communities and individuals can do to prepare for major emergencies around human, animal and plant health, air quality and pollution, hazardous materials, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (even if it’s just finding out what antimicrobial resistance is).
  • Fire – Building and residential fires and wildfires can impact any of us and there are statutory obligations around preventing these emergencies for some to think about. Have a chat and access lots of answers and help.
  • Utilities – Would you know what to do if your communication channels went down? What’s your plan B if that’s your main route for commerce? Would water outage affect you or power cuts? Find out more about these risks and how you can prepare.