Business continuity and fire safety

Business continuity plans and risks assessments can reduce the impact of an incident on your day-to-day operations.

From fire and flooding to staff sickness and supplier problems, we can help you to:

Identify risks to your business

Use your local knowledge to identify specific risks, such as local roads that often flood or what time of year power outages tend to occur.

Risks affecting Hertfordshire

Business continuity checklist - Run through this list to create, approve and maintain your continuity plan.
Business continuity plan template - This will help you to structure your plan.

Plans don't have to be complicated, especially for small organisations. A basic report should include:

key processes and how it would impact the business if they failed
threats to your processes and whether these can be prevented or reduced
actions to make sure key processes aren't interrupted, as well as specific responsibilities for staff and any critical reference points (for example, where you keep your back-up records).

Run through these scenarios in a table-top exercise with your staff to test your plan works:

A plan needs to be kept up to date to be effective:

Review it after any major changes to your staff, procedures, premises, suppliers or services.
Check that staff contact details are correct every year.

Phone: 01707 292310

Fire Protection Department
Mundells (post point MU103)
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 1FT