Make your plan
Your business continuity plan will provide a framework for you and your organisation to respond to any crisis. It should help to reduce harm to staff and enable your business to survive disruption.
The steps below give you the information and tools you need to design an effective emergency strategy for your organisation:
- Learn how to structure your plan
- Tailor your plan to your organisation by clicking the appropriate link below:
- Communicate your plan
- Practice and review your plan
As you work on your strategy, always remember that good business continuity plans are:
- flexible
- work on public holidays and in any weather conditions
- clearly written and easily understood
- tested regularly
- integrated into your organisation's structure
- understood by everyone in the organisation.
Don't forget your neighbours
Discuss your arrangements with your neighbours and experts who might become involved, such as the Police or Fire Brigade. To achieve a coordinated response, you and your neighbours must know each others capabilities and willingness to cooperate on matters such as the use of each others emergency equipment, temporary secure storage and so on.
Do not forget the need to communicate plans to other tenants in a multi-occupancy building (e.g. to ensure that different evacuation assembly points have been chosen).
Business plans that work
If you need some inspiration for your plan, take a look at some of these case studies from organisations that have averted disaster by successfully implementing their emergency strategies.
