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Planning for and surviving business and personal disasters.

Being prepared, knowing what to do, and how to cope.

It is written for a UK audience by Keith Park who has a wide range of experience and knowledge connected with businesses in the UK, and is also the President of the Independent Inquiry Society. This book is for the businessman within the UK, managers within UK companies or those considering starting a business in the UK.

This book tells it as it is, no hold barred or problem left unexposed, frank and critical of much, it investigates all risks from natural disasters, through the risks of terrorism to corruption and staff dishonesty. 

This book is about risk management, and survival of all types of business and personal disasters. About being prepared, having action plans, knowing what to do, and how to cope with disasters.

All businesses without exception will experience problems at various stages, most often they will survive fairly easily, some will slow it down or even make it struggle, but failure is often not brought about by a single major problem, but several smaller ones that come at a similar time and cannot be all handled at once, unless the directors are prepared for them.

A Director has financial and legal liabilities that are considerably greater than most directors appreciate. If the company fails, all the ground rules change, and the king of his own empire is considered by many some type of crook, and it is open season on his reputation. The people to lead the onslaught will be the people who have never created anything, or taken any risk in their lives, many coming from the safe, overpaid, and pensioned red tape group.

A company is the sum of the people within it, we therefore also look at personal disasters, and community wide disasters that could affect key staff members or prevent the business from functioning. Surviving disasters of all types, ranging from floods to terrorist attacks to power cuts for long periods. The concept is to look at what preparation can be made as a general safeguard and the extra preparations that can be made when an imminent threat is present. It goes further than this to be a good general handbook for every director’s family, covering more routine disasters, from medical emergencies to being an innocent person unexpectedly arrested, as well as the extremely unlikely.

The  book is structured in ten sections; 

1. An overview, including looking at types of disaster and consequences

2. Moves on to a look at risks and disasters

3. Covers terrorist actions

4. Is on business challenges

5. Problems individuals may experience

6. What you can do to be able to survive problems without leaving your home

7. Information services

8. Business action plans

9. Personal action plans

10. Reference material

The button above left [contents] gives a far greater breakdown showing the contents page from the book, and the button [Author], gives greater details on the Author.

Paperback - 180 pages  Management Books 2000; ISBN: 1852524189

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