Talking When The Lights Go Out

摘要

How well would your organisation cope in the event of a major power outage, extreme weather or civil emergency? How effectively would you be able to respond to a black start?rnTo help mitigate any risk to our national infrastructure, and ensure an effective response, the government set up its Civil Contingencies ? Secretariat (CCS) in 2001 - business continuity planning that places responsibility firmly on the shoulders of the utility sector to restore vital services, within a given time, in the event of a major incident.rnMany of our utilities companies are currently ill-equipped for civil contingency planning or, more accurately, it is their Global System for Mobile (GSM) communicationsrnnetwork that is not adequately resilient to cope in the event of a major outage.