Adapting your business to impactful weather
A practical guide for small and medium-sized enterprises
While you cannot prevent flooding, heatwaves, storms, or droughts, you can reduce their impact through preparedness, targeted investments, and effective planning. Guidance has been developed to help businesses to prepare for and respond to the impacts of impactful weather and covers:
General Preparedness
- How to strengthen overall resilience to impactful weather
Flooding
- How to find out if you are in a flood risk area
- How to find out about flood warnings
- How to prepare for flooding
Intense Heat, Drought, Wildfires & Low Temperatures
- How to find heat risk information
- How heat, drought and low temperatures could impact your business
- How to prepare for hot days
- How to prepare for drought conditions
- How to prepare for the impact of wildfires
- How to prepare for the cold
Storms
- How storms could impact the business
- How to prepare for storms
How to prepare an Environmental Risk Assessment
The full guidance can be found on the Staffordshire Business & Environment network website
