1. Bringing strength and resilience to business
Adarna News
July 2009
Volume 1, Issue 1
www.adarnaconsulting.com.au
Adarna Consulting Pty Ltd 07 3161 4450
Special
Interest
Articles:
On a wing and a prayer…
..is how many businesses 2009. always upon us.
operate with fingers
• Have you How do we prepare Crisis - broadly defined as
planned for crossed that “it won’t
ourselves and our an escalating incident that
the worst? happen to me.”
business for these kinds poses a serious threat to
The last decade has seen of events? the operation, viability or
• Protecting our a rise in catastrophic reputation of an
kids It is imperative that we
natural disasters, organization (Pollock,
protect our business and
• Small terrorism threats and other 2002).
critical operations. If we
Business devastating events such
fail to prepare ourselves All organisations can be
Crisis as oil spills, hijackings,
adequately we will pay the impacted by crises. With
Preparedness mass shootings, war, etc.
price. good planning your
Toolkits
To make matters worse, in organisation can avoid
The possibility of an event
2008 we entered a global some or all adverse
with significant impact on
economic crisis that has impacts.
business operations,
flow on effects to all levels
system outage, If a crisis were to occur
of business and
devastation from cyclone, today ask yourself, would
government throughout
flood or fire, a fatality on you be ready? Have you
the world and a pandemic
site, or something that can planned for the worst?
was declared in June
damage our reputation is
Individual Highlights:
Child’s play, spreading the word on pandemic preparedness
On a wing … 1
In June 2009, Adarna staff but when many are FOR PARENTS
Childs play... 1 Consulting worked with a ill, agency staff become • Keep your children at
number of childcare limited and the cost of home if anyone in the
Small business… 2
centres and schools to relief is high. As a result household shows flu
Adarna Bird 2 help staff and parents centres may opt to close symptoms or if you
understand the risks of their doors in the interim. have been in contact
Training solutions 2
Pandemic and Seasonal with someone with
The importance of forward
Influenza. H1N1 (swine flu).
planning at schools and
The greatest revelation to childcare centres and • Read and adhere to
parents and staff was that teaching both staff and health policies set by
whilst State Governments parents of their the centre or school.
may have been closing responsibilities is crucial • Abide by government
schools and child care to keep these vital self quarantine advice.
facilities when the H1N1 services running. • Do not delay if you are
Influenza was present the called to take your
Contact us via email or by child home.
greatest risk was closure
due to staff infection.
phone to arrange a • You are responsible for
briefing or pandemic protecting other
Most childcare centres planning session at your children as well as
have arrangements with school or childcare centre. your own.
agencies to relieve sick

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Attention:
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Adarna Consulting has emergency plan. It can disaster you save $7 in have the resources or the
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They feel that they cannot
Medium Business. Why is crisis planning failure and can lead to a
justify the cost of bringing
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business? They can also lead to
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legal problems that can
today! 1. Small businesses are
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most vulnerable to
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crisis, issues and
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6. Most small businesses Toolkits tailored for your
2.Insurance does not
will not survive if they business are an easy way
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an unexpected event
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perhaps the entire year. a fraction of the cost of
intangible items as
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company reputation and 7. It’s not whether a crisis
services.
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3. 50% of all businesses
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hit by a crisis will not
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survive if they do not Not convinced? Check
planning and testing
have an adequate crisis out what crises could
process. Contact us
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MOBILE: Ever wondered where the name Adarna came from?
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Borne of the phoenix a is an Indian version of the and culture of the region.
mythical bird bursting into phoenix.
Samantha began her work
E-MAIL: flames then rising anew
Ibong Adarna (Adarna in crisis contingency
Information@adarnaco from the ashes, the
Bird) is yet another planning whilst living in
nsulting.com.au phoenix has many names
version of the phoenix and the Philippines so when
and forms throughout
is a popular folktale in the choosing a name for the
different cultures.
Philippines. business it was only
Want to know more about Fenghuang, the Chinese natural to incorporate the
Samantha Ford spent 2
business continuity, risk phoenix, the Firebird in theme of the phoenix with
or crisis management? years living and working in
Russian folklore, Angha a a culture and humor that
Email us and we can Mindanao and was
Persian name and Garuda she loves.
address it in the next impacted by the people
edition of News and
Views
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including the following:
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We’re on the Web! • Pandemic Preparedness
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