# Business Continuity Risk Register FundApps has performed a business impact analysis and maintains a risk register as part of our business continuity management system. The full risk register is [maintained here \[Restricted to FundApps staff\]](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_Oh2o5wQwEYpDvcTcuSnNgsTrAUX3sGWaAiH0Xxs4w/edit#gid=830758930). We do not include the full details here, but below is a summary of the risks that we have analysed. | Ref | Risk Identified | Guidance notes | Risk type | | --- | ------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | 1 | Pandemic (flu like infection) | Widespread flu | National | | 2 | Terrorist attack against UK generally | Dealt with under location risks | National | | 3 | Regional or national power failure | | National | | 4 | Fuel supply crisis | Political instability at home or abroad makes petrol/diesel difficult to acquire | National | | 5 | Solar weather | Major flares from the Sun can disrupt networks, electricity grids and infrastructure in unpredicatble ways | National | | 6 | Criminal activity aimed specifically against Fund Apps | Organizations someitmes targeted to move funds or act as a trusted party fronting for criminal activity | Organisational | | 7 | Espionage against Fund Apps for high profile clients | Organizations are sometimes targetted for espionage in order to gain insight into confidential information in client | Organisational | | 8 | Malicious damage by member of staff | Staff who are being disciplined or recently dismissed or suffering mental illness | Organisational | | 9 | Loss of key individuals | Staff may be ill, have accidents or leave for other work | Organisational | | 10 | Earthquake | | Location - Natural | | 11 | Volcano | Identified as a National Risk too | Location - Natural | | 12 | Fluvial flooding | Flooding from rivers | Location - Natural | | 13 | Flash (pluvial) flooding | Flash floods follow intense rain | Location - Natural | | 14 | Severe weather (snow) | Snow fall over large part of the area and remaining for 1 week | Location - Natural | | 15 | Severe weather (prolonged low temperatures) | Persistent low temperatures | Location - Natural | | 16 | Severe weather (Heat Wave) | Temperatures exceeding 32C and minimum overnight exceeding 15C over 5 days | Location - Natural | | 17 | Severe weather (drought) | Prolonged shortage of rainfall or failure in water supply | Location - Natural | | 18 | Outbreak of severe illness or communicable disease | May arise from local transmission of disease or collective exposure to food pathogens or legionella et al | Location - Health | | 19 | Impact to building from road traffic accident | | Location - traffic | | 20 | Road traffic accident blocking access roads | Road intersection few LGVs | Location - traffic | | 21 | Road traffic incident with hazardous chemicals | Construction traffic may pass, petrol station opposite office | Location - traffic | | 22 | Road traffic incident or fire with gas/gas cylinders | Construction traffic with gas cylinders almost certainly passes office | Location - traffic | | 23 | Rail accident | Old Street Tube Station only nearby line | Location - traffic | | 24 | Air accident | Aircraft directly impacting site | Location - traffic | | 25 | Neighbouring businesses | Activities of neighbours may expose Fund Apps to risks | Location | | 26 | Criminal activity against site | Opportunistic or directed activity | Location | | 27 | Terrorist action in vicinity | Fund Apps not targeted but impacted by nearby attack | Location | | 28 | Terrorist action against site | Fund Apps not target per se, but site attacked for some perceived connections | Location | | 29 | Effectiveness of Physical security | Criminals, terrorists, demonstrators can all be discouraged and prevented by effective perimeter security | Perimeter | | 30 | Utility supply to site - Electricity | Liable to localised mains failure, substation fire and disturbance through ground works | Perimeter | | 31 | Utility supply to site - Gas | Liable to disturbance through ground works | Perimeter | | 32 | Utility supply to site - Water | Liable to disturbance through ground works. Loss through systemic failures in distribution system. | Perimeter | | 33 | Utility supply to site - Sewerage | Liable to disturbance through ground works | Perimeter | | 34 | Utility supply to site - Telecomms | Liable to disturbance through ground works and loss of local exchange | Perimeter | | 35 | Building roof | Roofs may leak giving rise to structural damage or flooding | Building | | 36 | Building structure | Overall structure must be sound to withstand severe weather, tremors etc. | Building | | 37 | Building structure | Asbestos - danger to health and needs controlled operations for works | Building | | 38 | Building basement areas | May be liable to flood from above or groundwater | Building | | 39 | Building - internal water supplies | Pipes and tanks must be in good condition and not positioned where they will cause significant damage | Building | | 40 | Building - M\&E | M\&E provides the air handling, chillers, boilers and electrical infrastructure for the operation of the premises | Building | | 41 | Fire within building | Rare but highly disruptive and damaging with a risk to life | Building | | 42 | Loss or disruption to key supplier | Suppliers, distributors and others are key to any business operation | 3rd parties | | 43 | Loss of local IT infrastructure services | Office IT loss | IT | | 44 | Loss of IT applications | Servers or storage failures in DCs | IT | | 45 | Cyber attack | Fund Apps targetted or simply collateral damage to other attack(s) | IT | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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