A disaster can happen at any time, in any place, without any warning.  Whether it be a hurricane, flood, earthquake, fire, terrorist attack, civil unrest, cyber-attacks, or mass casualty accident, people and businesses can get caught up in the unforeseen.

Legally and morally, employers have a duty of care to the people who work for them to provide a safe workplace. When an emergency situation affects your workplace, do you have an effective system in place to quickly inform your employees so they can take the appropriate steps to be safe?

If you’ve decided to improve internal communication within your organization, by now you’ve probably realized that it can be quite challenging. Ensuring that people get the right information in a timely manner not only helps them to do their jobs well, but helps build your company culture, boost engagement, increase productivity and gives you a strategic advantage over your competitors.

Parts of the world have experienced particularly savage wildfire seasons this year. Most recently, dozens of fires burned their way through large parts of California and Oregon. At the beginning of 2020, Australia experienced its worst-ever bushfire season with blazes in several states.

Companies need to be prepared for a range of scenarios that can eventuate where their business is disrupted in some way. These are known as “incidents” and can vary from IT outages through to emergencies like fires or gas leaks - and everything in between.

Bad weather isn’t just inconvenient, it can be dangerous too. Floods, hurricanes, blizzards, tornados, extreme heat - just to name a few - can disrupt your business. When an inclement weather event happens, it is important you communicate quickly with your employees so they know what they are expected to do.

Emergencies and disasters can strike at any time, often when you least expect them. In most circumstances you will have no warning at all that an emergency situation is about to unfold.

Challenging weather conditions are part of life all over the world - and when there is a major weather event it can be disruptive to your business. Inclement weather can include cyclones, hurricanes, major storms, snowstorms and blizzards, floods, tornadoes and even extreme heat or extreme cold.

The Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and will affect many parts of the Gulf and east coasts of the United States of America, the Caribbean and parts of Central America. As always, hurricane season can affect businesses and their employees as wild weather and storm surges can cause damage to buildings and infrastructure, flooding, electricity outages as well as physical harm to people.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is posing challenges for business operations all over the world as organizations have to quickly put new systems in place to ensure their employees can work from home during social distancing, lockdown and quarantine periods that are being enforced by governments around the world.