From planning for cyclones and floods to recovering from a cyber-attack, Rockhampton's small and medium-sized businesses have been provided resources and advice to improve their resilience at the Disaster Preparedness Program.
Delivered by Advance Rockhampton and Rockhampton Regional Council's Disaster Management Team, today's workshop armed businesses with strategies to prepare for disasters, helping safeguard their operations and strengthen economic resilience. The free session included real-world training scenarios and covered disaster preparation and response, cyber security, business support measures, crisis communications, business continuity and recovery funding.
In addition to individual business strategies created at the workshop, a series of one-on-one mentoring sessions to further support businesses in preparing for, and recovering from, disasters is being offered to attendees. Additional workshops focused on the broader topic of business continuity will also be delivered by Advance Rockhampton in 2026.
More than a third of the workshop attendees had been previously affected by disasters, which are expected to cost the Queensland economy $530 billion between 2020 and 2060, according to the State Government's State Disaster Risk Report (2023).
