BCM Advice

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is about identifying those parts of your organisation that you can’t afford to lose, such as information, stock, premises, staff and planning how to maintain these, if an emergency occurs. Business continuity management can ensure your organisation can handle an emergency, continue to function and can recover effectively afterwards.

Any emergency, large or small, whether it is natural, accidental or deliberate, can cause major disruption to your organisation. But if you plan now, rather than waiting for it to happen, you will be able to get back to business in the quickest possible time. The BCM Guidance Booklet provides more information.

The attached BCM Toolkit aims to help you put the theory into practice by guiding you through the steps you will need to take to implement BCM in your organisation. It is a step-by-step guide taking you through the six elements that make up the BCM lifecycle.

Please find below further BCM links to help and guide you:

• The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) | A global institute for business continuity and resilience | BCI (thebci.org) - provides advice on all aspects of business continuity.
  
  
• Preparing for emergencies - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) - advice and links on Preparing for emergencies, including business continuity.