Widespread staff sickness, loss of power,
building damage or even a fuel shortage - what would you do to keep
your business functioning in the event of a crisis?
Your customers will not wait for long while
you try to recover from an emergency, so it’s vital that plans are
in place to enable your response to any incident to be quick,
efficient and effective.
Business Continuity Management
To do this you need to identify the key parts
of your business and plan to ensure you have the resources you need
to keep them going. Resources could mean staff, suppliers,
premises, equipment or data, and your plan may contain contact
lists of key staff, suppliers and customers. It might also have
details of an alternative location you could work from and roles
and responsibilities for who will do what in a crisis.
Business continuity management will help you
to identify risks and cope with them if they do occur. It should
identify the potential impacts that threaten an organisation,
provide a framework for building resilience and the capability for
an effective response and recovery.
Further advice to businesses and information on business continuity
is available from the LRF website (external
link).
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