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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?
The Business Continuity Team 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.
The Business Continuity Team is:-
Rick Thornton (Business Continuity Manager), 01473 260439
rick.thornton@epu.suffolkcc.gov.uk
Lesley Pretlove (Business Continuity Officer), 01473 264099
lesley.pretlove@epu.suffolkcc.gov.uk
A simple plan in place within your organisation will go a long way to being prepared. There are 5 basic steps which organisations should follow when putting together a business continuity plan.
Your quick guide to business continuity. (pdf 31k)
A 10 Minute Self Assessment (pdf 69k)
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.
Find out more and join, it's free!
Your Step-By-Step Guide To Business Continuity
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Select each one of the links below to work through the process:
1. Analyse your organisation (pdf 46k)
2. Assess the risks (pdf 41k)
3. Develop a strategy (pdf 53k)
4. Develop your plan (pdf 69k)
5. Testing your plan. (pdf 20k) |
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Useful Web Sites
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: www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/business/index.shtm
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)
Download this template flood plan from the Environment Agency business advice page on flooding
Download this handy county specific information sheet to printout and keep. Includes useful phone numbers and radio frequencies.
Pandemic Flu
Information to prepare your business against pandemic flu
We site: http://www.suffolkresilience.com/business_continuity/bc_pandemic_flu.htm
Suffolk Business Continuity Consultants
(This list is not exhaustive and is intended for information only. It in no way implies endoresment, promotion or favour by the Joint Emergency Planning Unit of any individual or company.)
Andy Mills. BSc CEng MIET MBCI - millsar@btinternet.com
David Hopps, CPP MsyI - www.fourpillarssecurity.co.uk
Denis Uphi - www.rel-net.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.