By Jorge García Carnicero
This week there has been two events that should be attended
by business continutiy managers in their continuity scenarios. There are the huge traffic jam that occurred in Madrid last Monday and the problem because of a sabotage in the rail singaling system in the highspeed traing (AVE) between Madrid and Barcelona. Both events has had the same
consecuence: lack of certain profiles in their work places, that could be in
their usual work place or after traveling to other city.
Analyzing possible solutions for this problem, and
assuming that it’s not possible to
foresee the problem before it happen, the best option is to establish the
mechanism required to:
- Warn the employees that there has been a problem related with transport, which requires that the company must realize that there is a problem
- Establish the mechanism required in ordert the employees could work remotely, through teleworking/homeworking.
Undoubtedly, to allow the employees to be warned there
has to be established a supervision system by the company, which requires a
7x24 alert system. This system could be rolled out internally or could be outsourced,
always taking into account the cost-benefit relation. It could be also
interesting to be incorporated in the early alert system, in the security SOCs,
for example.
From teleworking, are still valid the solutions
described in my post Legionella, a real threat
