Cold Weather Warning - how to protect commercial businesses

A message from Chris Andrews, Head of Risk Management Solutions

With the weather warning that's in place across the UK for the weekend of the 6 February, we wanted to share with you ways your commercial customers can protect their business during this time.

With more and more businesses temporarily closed, the need to shut down operations safely has never been more important - particularly during the winter months. Our updated Temporary Mothballing and Shutdown of Premises & Operating Plants - Winter 2021 Edition Loss Prevention Standard will support this transition and details some of the various aspects you'll need to consider during the cold winter spell. 

And with the increased risk of bad weather we have three guides that we hope will be useful during this time;

All of our best practice risk management and prevention content and guidance can be found on our new website www.aviva.co.uk/risksolutions/

And of course, if you do need to report a claim, you can find out more here.