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Business Continuity: preparing your business
Incidents such as fire, flooding, loss of suppliers, and failure of IT affect businesses on a regular basis.
Within 6 months of the 1996 Manchester Bomb 250 businesses closed down.
By planning how to get your businesses up and running again after an incident you give yourself a much better chance of survival. A simple plan will help you retain custom and generate profit.
Basic Business Continuity - the Five Steps
- Understanding the risks your business faces and identify its key functions.
- Identify resources required to resume the appropriate level of service delivery.
- Develop a contingency plan to meet the level of delivery identified in Stage 2.
- Train your staff, make them aware of the importance of Business Continuity.
- Exercise your plans and regularly review and update them.
More Information?
The Emergency Planning Team are here to provide general assistance to business and voluntary organisations in relation to businesses continuity management in the event of an emergency.
If you would like more information on Business Continuity or would like to join the Business Emergency Resilience Group (BERG) please email the team emergencyplanning@sheffield.gov.uk
Downloads
Sheffield City Centre Evacuation Plan outlines the 15 evacuation zones within the centre. It was produced in conjunction with the Emergency Services. (1016 KB)
Information on Business Continuity Management produced by HM Government (191 KB)
Expecting the Unexpected provides practical business continuity advice (469 KB)
Secure In The Knowledge provides practical security advice for businesses (2.57 MB)
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