Business resilience & recovery
Our operations could face a range of incidents that may threaten our business. While it is impossible to predict every kind of incident we could face, we have adopted a Group wide business resilience and recovery approach to address a range of possible events.
This approach brings together our collective experience to protect our people, the environment, our assets and our reputation. It is an essential part of an effective management system that aims to prevent or control risk and the consequences associated with these events.
- Approach
- Elements
- Implementation
Rio Tinto may be affected by a range of potential events, including:
- Natural disasters
- Environmental disasters
- Terrorist acts
- Major fire/explosions
- Aircraft incidents
- Loss of communications/information systems/technology
- Health issue/widespread illness or pandemic
- Major asset/property damage
- Major market disruption
Historically we used a variety of different approaches to manage these types of threats, with potential gaps or overlaps across the Group. So early in 2009 we undertook a review of our approach to ensure that we are managing incidents consistently, using a common language, sharing best practices and eliminating overlaps and unclear accountabilities.
As a result, our previously separate emergency response, business continuity and information technology disaster recovery plans have now been brought together in one streamlined Business Resilience and Recovery Programme. This programme requires our operations to allocate appropriate resources, including trained personnel, facilities and equipment, to effectively mitigate, control and recover from a major incident.
