Emergency Disaster Planning (Business Continuity Planning)

Effective Emergency and Disaster Planning, (Business Continuity Planning), is a fundamental business process overlapping into all areas of corporate governance and management best practice. BP Associates see Emergency and Disaster Planning, (Business Continuity Planning) as a proactive rather than a reactive process, and a process that involves every department, every level of the business, and every point of contact with people, bodies and agencies outside of the business.

The key to Emergency and Disaster Planning, (Business Continuity Planning), is the breaking down of key business processes into their lowest components, and identifying and testing the potential failure points. The project is documented in some detail and audited both internally and independently, giving the business a regular health check.

Services may include:

Business continuity planning

· Gap analysis and benchmarking of plans against best practice.

· Development and full implementation of Business Continuity Plans, including establishing the minimum acceptable service level, risk analysis, emergency action and business recovery planning and testing and maintaining the plan.

· Table-top exercises to test effectiveness of plans.

· Training of managers and employees to encourage a culture where all employees are sufficiently aware of everyday risks and their individual responsibility to report, manage and mitigate risks.

Business continuity management

The ongoing management of the business continuity plan to ensure that it is always current and available.