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New Business Guide to Flood Resilience Launched

The Know Your Flood Risk campaign has today launched a new Guide to Flood Resilience for businesses, developed by two former flood victims, Mary Dhonau OBE and Carly Rose.

With over 4,000 business premises affected by flood waters in December 2015, the supplement provides highly practical guidance on steps all businesses can take to make their premises flood resilient.

As Mary Dhonau, Chief Executive of the Know Your Flood Risk Campaign explains: “Just over a year ago, record levels of rainfall were recorded, with the Environment Agency issuing over 90 severe flood warnings. While 13,000 households were directly impacted, we mustn’t forget about the thousands of businesses that also bared the brunt of the deluge.

We’ve created the new business flood resilience supplement, which includes an emergency plan template to really act as a guiding hand on what steps to follow to make your office, factory or other commercial facility resilient to flooding. By following the advice, it will help to make recovery that much quicker.“

The guide is designed to help business owners be aware, prepare and take practical steps to reduce the impact that flooding can have on their operations. It includes a design prototype of a flood resilient commercial building, which can be used as a helpful guide for those new to considering flood resilience measures for their office, factory or commercial building.

Over the Christmas period Lord John Krebs from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said it was important to learn from the run of floods that have affected parts of the country in recent years. He was quoted as saying “Almost every year there has been some more or less major flooding event and that is a key message. We have to now get it embedded that this is something that will happen somewhere most years.”

Concludes Mary: “With the Committee on Climate Change suggesting that flood events are something we need to be mindful of each year, it’s vital that business leaders and commercial property owners take steps now to make sure that, should the worse happen and flood waters breach their premises, they are prepared and have taken steps to lessen the negative impact on both the building and their business interests.”

To download a free copy of the new business supplement, or access a copy of the comprehensive Homeowners’ Guide to Flood Resilience, visit knowyourfloodrisk.co.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Flood Mary .