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Resilience Week 2026

Resilience Week is a global movement highlighting the everyday actions that can build organisational resilience, helping protect our people, customers, services and planet.
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What is Resilience

Resilience is the ability to adapt to change, respond to challenges, and move forward with confidence.

It helps organisations support their people, deliver for customers and stay strong in a changing world.

Built through effective planning, everyday actions and a shared sense of purpose, resilience creates future-ready, sustainable organisations.

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Resilience Week 2026 and Why it Matters

Held in the first week of June, Resilience Week is an internationally recognised event that explores how leaders and colleagues can build safer, stronger organisations together. It shines a light on the small actions that create meaningful impact over time.

UNITY: We all have a part to play in supporting our people, customers, services and planet.
VALUES-BASED: Resilience is built on the standards we uphold, the care we demonstrate and the actions we take every day.
CONNECTION: It highlights the resilience that connects our workplaces, communities and everyday lives.
EMPOWERMENT: It encourages awareness, shared ownership and action at every level.

Five Pillars of Resilience Week

Resilience Week is built on five pillars that strengthen organisational and workforce resilience.

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Risk – Ready Today.

Resilient Tomorrow.

Business continuity starts long before disruption happens. When we prepare together, we continue to deliver, whatever the challenge.

It’s about being ready to respond, while keeping people supported, services running and customers confident. By planning ahead, understanding risk and preparing well, organisations can adapt more quickly, reduce impact and remain strong when challenges arise.

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Wellbeing – Learning Together.

Growing Stronger.

Wellbeing plays a vital role in building resilience, helping people feel supported, confident and better equipped to thrive. Mentoring strengthens this further by creating space to share knowledge, learn from experience and build trusted connections. Together, they help people grow and adapt – strengthening resilience across teams, workplaces and organisations.

QHSE – Protecting People.

Powering Resilience.

Protecting people through strong QHSE practices helps build a safer, more resilient organisation that’s ready to respond.

It helps turn high standards into everyday behaviours. By focusing on quality, health, safety and the environment in everything we do, organisations can reduce disruption, build trust and create the strong foundations needed to perform well under pressure.

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Cyber – Stay Alert.

Stay Connected.

Cyber resilience depends on consistent awareness, shared responsibility and staying connected to the risks that can affect people, systems and services. By recognising threats, following good digital habits and acting early, individuals and organisations can reduce disruption, strengthen trust and keep operations running securely.

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ESG – Small Choices.

Lasting Impact.

Small decisions can have a lasting impact. When each of us acts with care, integrity and responsibility, we help build stronger, more sustainable communities and organisations. Sustainability is shaped not by one big action, but by the choices we all make each day. The power of one is the power of all.

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How Resilience Week Began

Resilience Week was launched by OCS in June 2025 as an internal campaign designed to make resilience more visible, relevant and practical for its 140,000 globally based colleagues.

Originally conceived as ‘Risk Week’, it quickly evolved into a broader initiative spanning risk, health and safety, cyber, wellbeing, and environmental and social responsibility. Its inclusion in the international annual awareness calendar has since helped extend its reach, with OCS encouraging more organisations to make resilience part of everyday culture.

Rooted in shared responsibility, Resilience Week invites organisations to be part of a collective movement grounded in integrity, responsible business practices and everyday action, helping to create stronger foundations for people, services, customers and the planet.

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Get Involved

Use Resilience Week to turn awareness into action.

Start conversations, test your resilience and focus on the small actions that help build safer, stronger businesses. From wellbeing and safety to cyber awareness and risk planning, every choice can contribute to a more resilient, sustainable and supportive workplace.

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