54 Incidents- October

 Business Continuity Management Prepare for the worst, hope for the best
​Imagine what the impact could be for mentioned organizations, reputation, ​loss of turnover, customers leaving, legal, financial aspects, employees can't do their work etc. etc.
  1. Scania plant in Meppel temporarily evacuated due to leaking flammable substance
  2. Email accounts municipality of The Hague used to send phishing emails
  3. Man becomes trapped in industrial accident in Barneveld
  4. Man killed by falling wall, hefty fine demanded from concrete company
  5. Trade union announces strike at DSM-Firmenich in Maastricht
  6. Computer system failure affects municipalities in Gelderland-Zuid, appointments cancelled
  7. Remia factory workers go on strike
  8. Data of healthcare institutions on the street due to hacking
  9. Personnel at brickworks in Kessel and Beek on strike again
  10. Large fire in business premises near Farmsum
  11. Man (50) dies in workplace accident in Scharmer, Labour Inspectorate investigates
  12. Police cordoned off the area with ribbons
  13. Deceased person found in water in Hellum
  14. Ict fiasco Sociale Dienst Groningen causes six million euro loss: ‘Of course we blame ourselves’
  15. Fire in Houten destroys business premises: building partly demolished
  16. Consumers' Association demands action against Babboe: “Too slow and poor communication”
  17. 800 pharmacy assistants strike in Zeist: ‘At Gamma, a salesperson earns two euros more’
  18. Private data of over 1500 Almonds leaked through municipality error
  19. Man trapped in accident at Nieuweroord payroll company
  20. New strikes in sauces heartland: Remia employees lay off work indefinitely
  21. Man injured after electricity box lands on him
  22. Chemelot leak: company fire brigade installs water screens
  23. Waste processing company Rd4 in court after fatal accident
  24. More Dutch companies victims of hostage software than thought
  25. Eight holiday parks have breached privacy laws by using facial recognition. This is according to an investigation by the Personal Data Authority (AP)
  26. Chairman of employers' association VNO-NCW sounds alarm about staff shortage: “Those who keep looking for people will get stuck”
  27. Municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn blunders again, thousands of letters sent with wrong information
  28. Two injured by chemical fire in company oven
  29. Part of Heerlen tax office briefly evacuated due to suspicious package
  30. Man injured after industrial accident on Urk
  31. Heavy fine for Vroomshoop Meubelen stands: diesel tank illegally excavated
  32. Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) hit by telephone blackout
  33. Critical shareholders accuse Ebusco of building ‘castles in the air’, AFM halts share trading
  34. Dutch hospitals face infusion shortage due to Hurricane Helene
  35. 1,500 northern businesses wait for power, no problems for consumers yet
  36. Still strike at DSM-Firmenich in Maastricht
  37. Malfunction at Greenwheels, with 335 shared cars in Utrecht cannot be used
  38. Very large fire at coating company, power partially switched off in Montfoort 
  39. More hospitals in financial trouble, threatens implementation of Care Agreement
  40. OV-bureau fines Qbuzz for too many cancelled buses
  41. Oxygen connected to drip, man dies: court forces hospital to hand over medical records
  42. Private data of over 1500 Almonds leaked due to municipality error
  43. Liander employee comes under power in Dokkum. ‘We are incredibly shocked’
  44. Treant hospital gets dramatic mark in financial stress test, WZA hospital also gets failing grade
  45. Workers cleaning cloth factory Sumar go on strike. ‘The cake is being divided very unfairly’
  46. Hundreds of Lelystad residents already two days without internet and TV from telecom provider Odido
  47. Man injured as a result of hand caught between lathe at Price Engineering in Vroomshoop
  48. Franciscus hospital emergency room closed for several hours due to power outage
  49. Power cut in Zundert: nine businesses still without power, thousands of euros of damage at butcher's shop
  50. Examination fraud at accountancy firm PwC as well (*) 
  51. Criminal investigation into company that cleans up drug waste for the government (*)
  52. ASML accidentally publishes figures and they are not good: shares plummet (*)
  53. Vodafone is fined millions by the National Inspectorate of Digital Infrastructure (RDI) for insufficiently securing interception facilities (*)
  54. Quarter of hospitals face serious problems in heavy rain (*)​

(*) see for more at Headlines.

Don’t think it will not happen to your organization, but think about, when it will happen, what will be the impact.