Business Continuity Awareness Week
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.
This year's week was from Monday 22 to Friday 26 March 2010. NORMIT fully supported the event. Every day we sent out a daily challenge designed to improve the resilience of organisations
In addition members were reminded to use the week to promote Business Continuity within their organisations ..….
- 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
Poetry Competition
A poetry competition was held. You can look at the entries by following the link to the poets corner page.
NORMIT Members Meeting
We changed the NORMIT Members meeting to Thursday 25th March. The evening had a BC theme.
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.
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
A short video depicting a humourous guide to the BCM lifecycle. (5mb wmv download)
