BS 25999 has been developed to help organisations minimize the risk of disruptions to your business caused by local, regional or national disasters or incidents. By helping to put the fundamentals of a BCM system in place, the standard is designed to keep your business going during the most challenging and unexpected circumstances through protecting your staff, preserving your reputation and providing the ability to continue to operate and trade.
Learning Outcomes
- Overview of business continuity management (BCM)
- The business continuity management policy
- BCM programme management
- Understanding the organisation
- Determining business continuity strategy
- Developing and implementing a BCM response
- Exercising, maintaining and reviewing BCM arrangements
- Embedding BCM in the organisation's culture
Benefits
- Provides a common consistent framework, based on international best practice to manage business continuity
- Pro-actively improves your resilience when faced with the disruption of your ability to achieve key objectives
- Helps protect and enhance your reputation and brand
- Opens new markets and helps you win new business
- Provides a marketing edge and using certification can help reduce the cost of expensive tenders
- Certification requires clear understanding of your entire organisation which can identify opportunities for improvement
- The certification process involves regular audits which ensure that your management system is up to date
- Demonstrates that applicable laws and regulation are being observed
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