In today's world, every organization needs to be aware of the threats posed by a wide range of crisis situations. If you manufacture any product the law now requires you to have in place adequate means and measures to identify locate and recover any batches or lots that could be potentially hazardous.

Failing to remove defective products not only risks being liable to prosecution but can be devastating to a brand and or company image.

Product recall aside, Nothstar Solutions also support any organisation with identifying and planning to minimize the risk and impact of a wide range of potential threats. These include flooding, fire and or loss of use of premises. Our approach is to work with you to identify potential risks to your business and develop and put in place a measures that will better enable you to survive and recover from a crisis. It is also worth noting that many larger companies increasingly expect their suppliers to have crisis plans in place.

Business continuity management

Developing the concept of crisis management further, many organizations are now opting for a holistic planning approach that focuses equally on dealing with the immediate effects of a crisis and optimising recovery to pre-incident activity. The aim is clearly to limit the adverse effects, especially financial, by ensuring a speedy return to ‘business as normal'.

Business Continuity Management is heavily endorsed by Governments around the world. In the UK , the British Standards Institute (BSi) have developed a framework standard – BS 25999 – to help all types of organizations to formulate suitable Business Continuity Plans.

Northstar Solutions can help you to plan and implement business continuity management strategies – either totally bespoke or based on BS 25999.

We don't stop at preparing the plans, it is essential that staff throughout the business are appropriate aware of their role within the plans and how to respond if the need arises.

Once your plan is in place, your people are trained, how will you know the plan is likely to succeed? When called into action? Supposing it doesn't work? Clearly, the time to find the ‘invisible' flaws in your plan is during a carefully prepared challenge test. We can devise a scenario-based exercise that will not only challenge your plan but will also test the competencies of your key people.

If your business is in need of any of these services – or you would like an informal, no-obligation discussion, please contact us