Contingency Planning for the Year 2000 Risk

Year 2000 programmes of work! will have mitigated the risk of disruption. However, whilst the risk might have been reduced, it may not be entirely eliminated. Figure 1 illustrates the residual risk. There may be a number of reasons for this, such as there are no practical mitigation actions, limited time and resources to investigate everything or the potential delay in a remediation project. These factors together establish the necessity for contingency plans.