Launch of Free Disaster-related Services to Partners in China

Sompo China, one of our group companies, is the first insurer in China to start providing the following disaster-related services free of charge to its business partners.
Paper Drill Services to Enhance Effectiveness of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs)
As globalization advances, companies have expanded their supply chains to foreign markets. In line with this trend, companies are now expected to formulate scenarios in disasters that could strike their facilities outside Japan and to ensure the effectiveness of those scenarios.
Many companies have set up key sites in China due to factors such as the country’s large market. Meanwhile, China presents numerous risks that differ from those in Japan, including abrupt legislative changes, IT infrastructure vulnerabilities, and the possibility of unexpected natural disasters and explosions. Accordingly, there has been a growing need for companies to formulate China-specific scenarios and to enhance the effectiveness of those scenarios.
Against this backdrop, Sompo China has started to provide paper drills, free of charge, to its business partners in order to help them prevent disruption to their critical operations during disasters, and to help them minimize damage and rapidly restore operations in the event of a disruption.
●Service outline
Target: Sompo China business partners (all industries)
Service: Predictive paper drill service
- Schematic training assuming fire and explosion risks
- Graphic training assuming the risk of logistics accidents
- Graphic training assuming environmental legal compliance risks
- Schematic training assuming the risk of the spread of new infectious diseases
- Graphic training assuming information security and cyber risk
- Other scenarios will be added according to needs.
Supported languages: Chinese, Japanese, English
VR Disaster Drill Service
Sompo China has partnered with NK Hatsuta (Shanghai) International Trading, a group company of the major Japanese firefighting equipment company, Hatsuta Seisakusho, to provide a disaster drill service using VR technology to its business partners, free of charge, from April 2019.
●Service outline
Target: Sompo China business partners (all industries)
Service: Virtual disaster drill service
The service uses VR to simulate a fire in a factory, warehouse or skyscraper and offers a virtual reality experience for company employees to evacuate from the disaster area. This virtual reality drill enables participants to experience the tense atmosphere when a fire breaks out and to understand the importance of disaster drills and first response drills for when a disaster occurs that comply with Chinese laws and regulations.
Supported languages: Japanese, Chinese, English
Sompo China will continue to contribute to the security, health, and wellbeing of customers by providing products and services of the highest quality possible.