事業所における浸水被害を対象としたリスク管理方策

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Small businesses impacted by natural disasters are often slow to resume operations, and must lay off employees when they cannot meet payroll. Thus, it is critical that small businesses create a business continuity plan (BCP) that ensures their survival in the event of natural disaster damage, especially in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Of the various types of such damage, we focused on flood, as small businesses have been slow to develop BCPs with provisions for such damage, despite its high frequency of occurrence and often catastrophic scale. This is likely a result of the current lack of information on past flooded damage suffered by businesses, impeding the damage estimation and risk analysis necessary to provide for business operations continuation. This study emphasizes the importance of disclosing the flood and discontinuation risks faced by businesses providing essential services, and proposes risk control measures for small business BCPs against flooded risk.