When being hit by an incident, companies who have a prepared way to respond are those able to best protect its people, assets and reputation. Practicing crisis management can also contribute to lowering the likelihood of an incident even occurring.
Natural disasters, pollution incidents, disease outbreaks, political and socio-economic instability and product contamination are some examples of events that may lead to a crisis in the food and beverage industry. Such events require a prompt and effective response to minimise the impact on the company’s employees, property, reputation, operational efficiency and share value. In today’s global and unpredictable business environment, appropriate crisis management is vital to an organisation’s success.
What are the benefits?
To proactively practice crisis management generates added value to your organisation. Key benefits include:
• Lower risk of crisis events occurring
• More effective response capability, including product recall
• Lower impact on reputation
• Swifter crisis response
• Limited business interruption
How we can help you
DNV helps organisations prevent events that may lead to a crisis and manage such events in an effective and co-ordinated manner, minimising loss. Our crisis management services aim to protect an organisation’s people, assets and reputation, including:
• Crisis prevention
• Vulnerability assessments
• Crisis response planning, including product recall
• Crisis containment planning
• Crisis communication plans
• Crisis event simulations
• Senior management training
• Stakeholder communications training
DNV’s crisis management specialists work with the management, security, legal, asset management, human resources and other professionals in your office to develop the systems and capability needed for effective crisis management.