• Nearly two thirds of the UK's top 250 companies have no plans to review security arrangements despite 67% in London and two-fifths nationwide being worried about the security of their bases (Source: international property adviser GVA Grimley)

  • Only 22% of the same companies have risk management or assessment in place and 48% have some form of disaster recovery system at another site (Source: GVA Grimley)

  • The total cost of fires in UK schools has more than doubled in five years from £42m to £87m outstripping the cost of blazes in any other type of public building (Source: Alarm)

  • Around 600 people died in fires last year in the UK - as many as were murdered in the UK (Source: Fire Protection Association)

  • Nearly a third of all UK SMEs do not carry out risk assessments (Source: SGS Consulting)

  • 70% of repondents in the Deloitte & Touche 2001 financial controllers risk management survey see risk management as a beneficial tool to gain competitive advantage.

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