Business Continuity Awareness Week
21 - 25 March 2011
This is an annual international event designed to to raise awareness and show the growing importance of Business Continuity Management (BCM) as an integral management tool.
Challenge of the Day
Every day this week we will be giving you a BC Challenge. Spending a small amount of time every day this week thinking about BC could help you improve the resilience of your organisation.
Friday's Challenge
Have all staff got ‘ICE’ numbers on their mobiles? (In Case of Emergency)
Having ICE numbers listed will help the Emergency Services contact
your next of kin if you are involved in an incident. For more information
look at the poster by following this link.
Thursday's Challenge
Give consideration to where you could work and how you would talk to
colleagues if you lost access to your building?
Prior to any incident it is a good idea to think about where staff
could work from and let them know.
Wednesday's Challenge
Have you considered and documented what you would do if you couldn’t
access IT systems?
Consider options for manual workarounds and having paper systems
available.
Tuesday's Challenge
Why not check that all key contact details in your plans are up to date?
A quick check of numbers now could save vital time during an
incident. Don’t forget that if your home or mobile numbers change ensure
they are updated within your organisation.
Monday's
Challenge
Are copies
of Business Continuity Plans up to date ~ even those kept at home?
A quick audit of your plans will ensure that everybody
is using the latest version.
Business Continuity Awareness Quiz
Follow the link to take the Business Continuity Quiz. Why not get your colleagues to take part too. You may be one of the lucky winners!
Email and Social Media
We will be putting out daily Business Continuity Top Tips via email, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
What You Can Do
Use the week to promote Business Continuity in your own organisation.
- Put up some posters reminding staff about Business Continuity (See below)
- Run a simple BC exercise or site evacuation
- Ask staff where they could work from if access to the building was lost
- Ask your organisations BC lead for an update on the plans
NORMIT Members Meeting
The Members Meeting will be held at the Norfolk Constabulary Operations and Communications Centre at Wymondham on Thursday 24 march 1730 to 1930. It will include presentations from Counter Terrorism Security Advisors on the current threat from international terrorism and provide information on how businesses and organisations can prepare themselves. Let us know if you will be attending normit@norfolk.gov.uk
Put this poster up within your workplace to let people know who is responsible for Business Continuity and who they should contact for more information.
What hand will your organisation be dealt?.
Time spent on planning NOW could prevent disruption turning into disaster for your business. This poster, with the NORMIT mouse, highlights the importance of preplanning.
Eight out of ten British people carry no next of kin details, yet 80% carry a mobile phone on them all the time. ICE is a simple way of letting the Ambulance crews and Police Officers know who to contact should you be involved in an incident.
For more posters go to our posters page.
For more information regarding Business Continuity have a look at the links below.
Business Continuity Management
Experience has shown that organisations with business continuity arrangements in place are more likely to stay in business and recover quickly in the event of an emergency than those who do not. Follow the link for further information on Business Continuity Management. NORMIT has developed a guidance document to assist you to develop Business Continuity Management. There is also a simple Business Continuity Plan template in Word format that you can amend and complete for your organisation.
Top Tips
NORMIT has produced a set of "Top Tips" cards that contain information relating to various hazards that could disrupt your business. It gives suggestions as to what you can do NOW to ensure a disruption doesn't turn into a disaster. Copies of these cards can be seen by following the link. For a printed copy of the cards please email normit@norfolk.gov.uk