Riots take out Businesses

Proper Planing Prevents Poor Performance!

Statistics show that 40% of businesses do not recover following civil riots and terrorist attacks.

Most businesses in the do not have a plan in place to allow them to carry on with their business following a disaster. Today in Cities around the World people will be turning up for work only to find that they have no building to work from. Doctors, health professionals, social workers, solicitors and many other much needed services will be unable to help decent, innocent people to come to terms with the day-to-day problems they encounter.

Throughout my adult life I have been involved at grass-routes level in riots as a soldier and special police officer, spent years working as a social worker with delinquent and disturbed adolescents and been on the streets as an undercover operator gathering evidence for anti-social behaviour.

There’s nothing new in rioting and civil unrest, it’s all happened before; the difference is the speed of communication and the willingness of individuals to gang-up and cause mayhem.

To believe that rioting helps to move society forward is nothing more than folly, I fail to see any gain. Destroying the very fabric of a society does nothing to help those most needing help. If there is a need for political change, then do it in a constructive way not destructive.

Businesses need to learn a lesson and prepare properly for continuity of business following a disaster. Signing up for a ‘Hot Site Office’ where there are desks and equipment in place usually within 4 hours is the first step to not becoming one of the 40%.