Essential and useful documents
To do lists for emergencies, staff contact trees, what to include in your ‘battle box’ and much more. Take a look at the documents below for templates and advice for creating an effective business continuity plan.
- Detailed Business Continuity plan components - An overview of what you should have in your plan
- Essential and useful items - A general checklist of items to be kept off site
- Critical Success factors in a crisis - A commonsense list of what is needed in a crisis
- Emergency pack (.pdf 45kb)
- Staff Contact Tree (.rtf 61kb) - An example of an organisational chart
- 'To do' instructions immediately after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
- 'To do' instructions after the first hour after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
- Software and Hardware Inventory lists (.rtf 15kb)
- Business Impact Analysis Matrix (.rtf 10kb) - Find out how an incident can impact your business
- Threat Vulnerability Matrix (.rtf 7kb) - Assess the likelihood of a particular event affecting your business
- A simple risk assessment diagram (.pdf 50kb)
- Traditional types of BCP rehearsals (.rtf 29kb) - Approaches to testing your plan you may wish to try
If you still need inspiration for your business plan, take a look at some case studies showing how UK businesses have responded to real emergencies.
