What is a risk associated with adverse weather for a business?

• A. It improves transport efficiency.
• B. It has no effect on deliveries.
• C. It can disrupt transport networks and delay delivered materials and staff, slowing production.
• D. It always increases productivity.

Answer: (C)

Adverse weather threatens operations because it disrupts how goods and people move. Storms, heavy rain, snow, or floods can slow or shut down transport networks—roads, ports, rails—leading to delays in deliveries and difficulties for staff to reach the site. When deliveries are late and staff can’t get to work, production slows or stops, creating knock-on effects in the supply chain. That direct link between weather-induced transport disruption and production delays is why this option describes the risk most accurately.

The other ideas don’t fit: weather doesn’t typically improve transport efficiency, it can definitely affect deliveries, and it doesn’t always or ever increase productivity; more often it reduces it.