What is Business Continuity Management?
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a process that helps you to manage the risks to the smooth running of an organisation or delivery of a service. These risks could be external (such as a power failure or severe weather) or they could be internal (such as a systems failure or high staff absenteeism). The process can be applied equally to private business or to service sector such as voluntary organisations.
This section of the website provides information, advice and guidance in four easy steps to help you to develop your business continuity plan.
The four steps of developing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) are:
- know your business - understand the critical functions your organisation needs to stay alive
- assess your risks - what effect will risks have upon your business?
- formulate your plan - develop a checklist of actions to be taken during an emergency
- test your plan - once staff are aware of the plan, make sure it will work
Other links are available to other sources of more detailed information.
Disclaimer:
This guidance is provided as general information about planning for emergencies. It is not intended to replace detailed guidance and planning specific to you and your business. You should consider whether and from where you need to obtain this. To the extent permitted by law, the West Mercia Local Authorities exclude any liability arising from the use of the guidance and plans on this website.