Business Continuity
What is 'Business Continuity'?
Business Continuity is the process that an
organisation puts into place to ensure that essential activities can continue
during a disaster and get back to a normal level of operation as quickly as
possible. Business continuity
planning is considerably more widespread in larger organisations, with a
serious gap in small to medium sized enterprises. Unfortunately it is the
smaller organisations who struggle to recover and continue trading after
major disasters, so it is those who really need to use the information on
this site.
How can
we help?
Business
Continuity is part of the Suffolk Joint Emergency Planning Unit (JEPU); we
can help you or direct you to resources and people who can offer specialist
help.
For
more information, contact: Rick Thornton
(Business Continuity Manager) - 01473 260439 rick.thornton@suffolk.gov.uk
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Suffolk Resilience Business
Continuity Forum. This is a forum for businesses
and voluntary organisations who wish to gain from each other's knowledge and
experience of business continuity.
Click
here to find out
more and join, it's free!
Your Step-By-Step Guide to
Business Continuity
Check your organisations business continuity readiness with the 10 Minute Self Assessment (pdf 69k)
 The following documents could help you learn more about and manage the
business continuity process for your organisation.
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Supply
Chain
One area of risk that should not be
overlooked is a company’s supply chain. Check your vulnerability:
·
Do
you source from a single company?
·
Could
you find an alternative supplier easily?
·
Do
they appear well run and reliable?
Before procuring any new services, consider asking if
they have any Business Continuity arrangements.
Click on this case
studies link which shows what could happen if your supply chain becomes
vulnerable. Click here
for a downloadable questionnaire that you could use to access a suppliers
business continuity readiness.
Information on how to do your supply chain vulnerability assessment. Use along with this supplier questionnaire (which
can be modified to suit)
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Residential Care Homes:
People
who care for the elderly, frail or vulnerable in a
residential setting need to be more prepared than most to deal with an
emergency situation.
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Click
here to find a template
Incident Management Plan (Word 214kb) to help your home prepare. It is
NOT a complete Business Continuity Plan, it WILL need editing to make it
relevant for your particular home but it should give you a start.
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There
is an accompanying resilience
document (PDF 48kb) which details some of the process needed to produce a
robust incident response.
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There
is also a copy of the presentation
(ppt 1.9mg) given at the care home events in October/November. Some notes
accompany these slides for additional information.
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Useful Web Sites
Free
Business Continuity Software from the RISC Authority and the Fire Protection Association
(FPA). https://robust.riscauthority.co.uk/
General
Business Continuity ‘know how’ from the Government
UK Resilience – Advice from the Cabinet Office.
Website: www.ukresilience.info/preparedness/businesscontinuity
A good starting point and where you will find a link to the useful Business
Continuity management Toolkit (pdf 570k)
London Prepared- Everything a business needs for BCM
including check lists, templates to download and case studies
Web site: www.londonprepared.gov.uk/businesscontinuity/index.jsp
Emergency Preparedness - Advice from the Government
Web site: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Dealingwithemergencies/Preparingforemergencies/DG_176539
Governing Bodies
The Business Continuity Institute
Web site: http://www.thebci.org/
Including the Good Practice
Guidelines and standards
such as BS26999
Flood Information
Information on protecting your business from floods from Business Link
Flood
Check List For Businesses (pdf 33k)
Find out if you are at risk and register for flood alerts and download the flood plan from the Environment Agency
Information on flood resilience and resistance products from the
National Flood Forum and download the journal on Improving
the flood resilience of new buildings
Pandemic
Flu
Our web page of information to prepare your business against
pandemic flu: Business Continuity - Pandemic Influenza Information
Risk Registers
Government
risk register:
Suffolk Community Risk
Register:
Suffolk Business Continuity Consultants
(This list is not exhaustive and
is intended for information only. It in no way implies endorsement, promotion
or favour by the Joint Emergency Planning
Unit of any individual or company.)
Suffolk Disaster Recovery (work area recovery facilities) -www.suffolkdisasterrecovery.co.uk
Steve Moor BSc, CEng, MIET, MBCI
- www.potsford.com/BCM.php
Frederick Gentile, BGG
Associates Ltd - frederick.gentile@bggassociates.co.uk
Alison Wagstaff MBCI - alison.wagstaff@kpmg.co.uk
Andy Mills. BSc CEng MIET MBCI -
millsar@btinternet.com
Kit
Wells - www.littlegreenconsulting.com
John Matthews - http://www.resiliencesolutions.org.uk
David Gregory BA, BC Dip, MBCI – www.saferltd.co.uk
Alan Pawsey, Arc Risk and Resilience Ltd. – www.arcriskandresilience.co.uk
The
information given in this Business Continuity Guidance is provided as general
information about planning for business disruption. It is not intended to
replace detailed guidance and planning specific to you and your business. You
should consider whether you need to obtain this. To the extent permitted by
law, neither Suffolk
County Council nor its
partner organisations assumes any responsibility for information on this
website and disclaim all liability in respect thereof.
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