Increasing the Resilience of Transport Enterprises through the Implementation of Risk Management and Continuity Management

Abstract

A society can’t function optimally without ensuring the fluency of transport, whether from moving people through work to traveling around the world, which is important for overall productivity and sustainable development of society, as well as the transport of goods between countries too. The current pandemic situation has affected every environment of our life, and the accepted measures on its mitigate, it has also affected our freedom of movement. The effort to reduce the spread of the virus has forced countries to close their borders and thus affect our movement, which is a matter of course for us. The enterprises had to adapt to the accepted measures, which in a lot of cases led to the interruption of operations for several months. A lot of micro-enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have also disappeared, as the cost of maintaining unused operations was higher than the profits. In this context, is placed a great emphasis on the area of prevention, whereas incorporating risk management and crisis management connected with business continuity management (BCM) into enterprises be create a certain resilience of enterprises, in the case of the origin of negative phenomena, which affect enterprises.