- What Businesses can do focuses on commercial and voluntary organisations and what they can do to mitigate risks so that there is both confidence and contingencies in place should an unforeseen event occur. Business continuity planning advice is provided with help with understanding your organisation, developing an emergency plan, and testing it to make sure that essential features are in place. Training and staff knowledge is a large part of the latter and external courses of offered to increase the preparedness of personal.
- Advice on Emergencies provides details on several specific emergency occurrences and scenarios including severely adverse weather conditions, act of terrorism, disease and public disorder. For each event there is guidance material and links to other resources on each individual issue and in some cases, the major cities in the UK.
The news section contains news on the latest threats that affect the UK including foot and mouth disease, terrorism alerts and statements and flooding advice and warnings. In addition to businesses and individual’s preparations, the site also discusses the role of the government and of voluntary groups and associations.
Suggestions for additional resources which could be included in the Preparing For Emergencies section should be submitted via the contact us form. A brief description of the website and a URL is required.
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