To cope with the numerous risks engulfing the company due to the increased business-to-business ratio, which bears greater responsibility to provide for clients, JVC Kenwood Group is disseminating in-house the importance of business continuation from the top down.
The corporate business continuity planning (BCP) guidelines identify the respect for life as primary, and the satisfying of products and services provision responsibility secondary, as corporate responsibilities to stakeholders starts with our clients. Based on this policy, we are promoting company-wide BCP development. This includes supply chains beginning with multiple model businesses as core businesses, such as the creation of a welfare check system for employees and their families, disaster prevention systems, and the establishment of emergency supplies.
We are involved in configuring two BCPs for scenarios that presume a virulent bird flu (H5N1) pandemic and a large-scale earthquake in the southern Kanto centered on the JVC Kenwood Group offices.
The pandemic BCP cited the major effects of preventive countermeasures during the new H1N1 influenza outbreak in Mexico in April 2009. A part of preventing infection and the spread of infection is to distribute manuals to employees that explain the stay-at-home system to prevent secondary infection. Another measure is to distribute preventive items such as disinfectant alcohol, masks, and mouthwash.
