retail

The retail and distribution sector is often perceived as being a low-hazard sector. Significant loss history however indicates that there is a wide range of potential exposures that can impact on a businesses ability to deliver.

Retail outlets are particularly susceptible to arson and distribution centres present their own unique hazards in the form of mixed commodity storage, high values, high combustible loading and their criticality to the supply chain.

Typical hazards include:

• Large, undivided retail areas
• Public access to buildings
• Yard storage
• Arson
• Use of third party storage locations
• Use of complex IT systems to centrally control large distribution and sales operations

elciem has worked with large UK retail organisations to promote risk management throughout their business and enhance the existing level of protection in strategic sites. We have developed bespoke solutions for gathering and analysing property exposure data from organisations with large retail networks to enable central risk management to better understand their exposures, the penetration of their own risk management practices and procedures and, where necessary, to plug the gaps of knowledge and implementation.