With regard to risks and threats which you should be considering, a register of risks that are relevant for the region has been produced via the Staffordshire Resilience Forum; known as the Community Risk Register (CRR).
A particularly high risk is Pandemic Influenza and this is certainly one risk which you should consider carefully as it could involve prolonged staff absence, along with others (eg, loss of power, loss of IT or telecommunications, loss of access to premises, loss of critical data or information through computer virus, loss of suppliers, etc). Swine Flu in 2009 showed that a number of staff could be off work sick at any one time, and organisations should prepare for this.
You may wish to develop "plan", which means you know what to do if you lose your premises' or staff.
You can protect your business by following these simple steps:
