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 businessWrite a business continuity planTest and review your planComply with fire safety regulations
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 Infectious outbreaks and diseases. Prolonged extremes of temperature. Industrial accidents. Major road traffic disruption. Flooding. Infrastructure and utility failure.
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).
Test and review your plan Run through these scenarios in a table-top exercise with your staff to test your plan works: Scenario 1 - Water damage (PDF) Scenario 2 - Gas leak (PDF) Scenario guidelines (PDF) 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.
GOV.UK fire safety in the workplace explains: who's responsible for fire safety in business premises how to carry out a fire risk assessment how to create a fire safety and evacuation plan fire safety equipment, drills and training penalties for non-compliance. Email the Fire Protection Office for more advice. Phone: 01707 292310 Fire Protection DepartmentMundells (post point MU103)Welwyn Garden CityAL7 1FT