Business continuity

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is planning to ensure that your organisation has a relatively quick and painless return to "business as usual" in the event of a major disruption.

Getting started with your business emergency plans

Complete the quick online assessment and assess how prepared your business is.
Go to the section relevant to your business size for Business Continuity Management guidance.
Use templates and tools to assist you in preparing your business

Making plans

While it is impossible to predict every kind of possible incident that may threaten your organisation, you can develop a basic plan from this framework.

Exercises

Exercises are an important management tool for informing and motivating personnel and giving confidence to those who may be required to respond in a crisis.

Case studies

A number of large UK businesses have supplied case studies for reference and download.

Essential documents

On this page you will find links and downloads to a variety of essential and useful documents.

Borough Plans

Take a look at our interactive Borough map with links to the emergency plans for different London Boroughs

London Prepared

Did you know?

Around half of all businesses experiencing a disaster with no effective plans for recovery fail within the following 12 months.

Look at our guides to creating a continuity plan.

Case study

"News broke on the afternoon of 22/2/01. The BCMT (Business Continuity Management Team) activated at 4pm that same day."

FAQs

Take a look at emergency planning FAQs.