Essential Business Continuity Documents
6th January 2009
The London Resilience Team has compiled a useful resource of to-do lists for emergencies, staff contact trees, what to include in your ‘battle box’ and much more.
Take a look at the documents below for templates and advice for creating an effective business continuity plan… click on the links below to download:
–> Detailed Business Continuity plan components - An overview of what you should have in your plan
–> Essential and useful items – A general checklist of items to be kept off site
–> Critical Success factors in a crisis - A common sense list of what is needed in a crisis
–> Emergency pack (.pdf 45kb)
–> Staff Contact Tree- An example of an organisational chart (.rtf 61kb)
–> ‘To do’ instructions immediately after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
–> ‘To do’ instructions after the first hour after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
–> Software and Hardware Inventory lists (.rtf 15kb)
–> Business Impact Analysis Matrix – Find out how an incident can impact your business (.rtf 10kb)
–> Threat Vulnerability Matrix – Assess the likelihood of a particular event affecting your business (.rtf 7kb)
–>A simple risk assessment diagram (.pdf 50kb)
–> Traditional types of BCP rehearsals – Approaches to testing your plan you may wish to try (.rtf 29kb)