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Contingency planning is planning for the future. It is a plan which prepares an organisation or agency for an emergency or out of the ordinary situation so that business activities can resume to normal as soon as possible. It allows an organisation the capacity ....

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.... Contingency planning minimises the impact of disruption while maximising resources available to resume normal operations in a business environment. In this essay I will explain the importance of contingency planning by highlighting the negative aspects of an emergency situation, which occurred to a company in Bhopal, India in 1984. The company did not have a contingency plan and the incident quickly became nothing short of a disaster. I have chosen Bhopal as my main case study because of the catastrophic effect that an industrial incident had on a total society. I will also briefly refer to the Knox City Council Fire that occurred in Victo ....