Making a Business Continuity Plan will help you prepare for and respond to disruptions and incidents. The plan would help you define the key products and services you would still be able to deliver.
Basic business continuity
The 5 steps to business continuity are:
- understand 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
Business continuity management
Business continuity management is about identifying parts of your organisation that you can't afford to loose and planning how to maintain these if an incident occurs. For more information about this read the Business Continuity Management Toolkit.
Our role
We provide general assistance to business and voluntary organisations in relation to business continuity management in the event of disruption and/or incidents.
We plan to help prepare for every eventuality and reduce disruption when incidents occur.
It is your responsibility as a business owner or manager to develop your own plans; we can offer advice and guidance.