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Business Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction

Floods in KwaZulu Natal, wildfires in the Western Cape and prolonged power and water outages have all forced South African organisations to rebuild operations from scratch with little notice. This course applies disaster risk reduction principles to business operations, covering hazard mapping, resilience investment, mutual aid arrangements and recovery planning that goes beyond a single crisis to build lasting organisational resilience.

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What you will be able to do

  • Map natural and infrastructure hazards that could disrupt a specific site or supply chain.
  • Quantify the cost of resilience investment against the likely cost of prolonged disruption.
  • Negotiate mutual aid and shared resource arrangements with neighbouring businesses or industry bodies.
  • Design a recovery plan that restores critical operations in a defined sequence after a disaster.
  • Coordinate with municipal disaster management centres during a declared local or provincial disaster.
  • Embed resilience thinking into ongoing investment and site planning decisions after recovery.

Course outline

  1. 01Disaster risk reduction principles
  2. 02Hazard mapping and exposure analysis
  3. 03Costing resilience investment
  4. 04Mutual aid and shared resources
  5. 05Recovery sequencing and prioritisation
  6. 06Working with disaster management centres
  7. 07Insurance and financial recovery mechanisms
  8. 08Embedding resilience into future planning

Who should attend

Risk managers, operations directors, facilities managers and business continuity practitioners in organisations exposed to flood, fire, drought or infrastructure failure risk across South Africa and the region.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 30 Sep 2026Lagos3US$1,500Closed
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Online3US$900Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
4 to 6 Nov 2026Durban3R13,000Register
9 to 11 Nov 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
10 to 12 Nov 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
11 to 13 Nov 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
16 to 18 Nov 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
17 to 19 Nov 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
24 to 26 Nov 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
25 to 27 Nov 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Dec 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
8 to 10 Dec 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Dec 2026Accra3US$1,500Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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