Royal & SunAlliance helps businesses plan for disaster with free CD ROM
Royal & SunAlliance helps businesses plan for disaster with free CD ROM Fire, flood, IT failure or the growing threat of computer viruses. There are many ways in which businesses could be so damaged by a single event that customers go elsewhere, reputations are damaged and staff lose their jobs. While this may be every business owner's worst nightmare, effective planning can prevent a crisis becoming a disaster - helping avoid the worst case scenario of a business being forced to close its doors temporarily, or going under for good. Now Royal & SunAlliance's Professional and Financial Risks practice (ProFin) has stepped in to help make this process easier and more effective by offering R&SA's award-winning* business continuity planning tool Foresight, to all Management Assurance policyholders in the form of a FREE CD-ROM. Business continuity management is recognised as being crucial in ensuring that organisations are able to continue operating in the aftermath of a disaster, minimising the impact and helping them return to full strength quickly. Foresight provides businesses with everything they need to develop, install and maintain a business continuity strategy which can be implemented in the event of a disaster. The CD ROM is a combination of detailed guidance notes supplemented by planning methodologies, useful drafts and templates. Martin Savage, Principal Business Continuity Management Consultant at R&SA commented: "It is imperative that businesses are prepared for any event that could damage their business. This includes the obvious risks such as fire and IT failure, but also risks as diverse as key people being poached by rivals, employee trauma or damage to the business's reputation. It is impossible to predict events such as this, so it is vital that organisations ensure they are as prepared and resilient as possible. "For many businesses the phrase 'failing to plan means planning to fail' has proven all too accurate. Business continuity management is the tried and tested way of ensuring business survival, and Foresight is the ideal way to carry this out effectively, protecting your business for the future". ProFin provides a wide range of insurance solutions for businesses to enable them to meet their legal responsibilities to customers and staff. Its Management Assurance package is a portfolio of seven covers to be used individually, in any combination or as a full portfolio. Protections include Professional Indemnity, Directors and Officers' cover and Kidnap Ransom & Extortion insurance, as well as Employment Practices Liability. For further information, please contact: Mhairi Kerr Ben Read PR Consultant Marketing Consultant Royal & Royal & SunAlliance SunAlliance T: 0151 224 3341 T: 0207 337 5861 M: 07740 845209 M: 07736 723560 E-mail: mhairi.kerr@uk.royalsun.com E-mail: ben.read@uk.royalsun.com Lorna Prentice/Duncan Hart Lansons Communications T: 0207 490 8828 E-mail: lornap@lansons.com; duncanh@lansons.com Note to Editors Royal & SunAlliance is one of the world's largest multi-national insurance groups, writing all major classes of general and life insurance. R&SA transacts in more than 130 countries and has 20 million customers around the world. The main regional centres of Royal & SunAlliance UK Commercial are Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Glasgow and Birmingham. In addition to the UK, Royal & SunAlliance's professional and financial risks practice (ProFin) operates throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Full details of the ProFin worldwide network and ProFin offices are available on www.profin.royalsun.com * Corporate Insurance & Risk, Business Continuity Awards 2001: European Business Continuity Management Friendly Insurer of 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/04/19/20020419BIT00890/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/04/19/20020419BIT00890/wkr0002.pdf