Business Continuity Planning
Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters
- 194 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Business Continuity Planning
Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters
About this book
Terrorism, natural disasters, or hazardous materials threaten the viability for all types of businesses. With an eye toward business scale, scope, and diversity, Business Continuity Planning: Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters, addresses a range of potential businesses from home-based to large corporations in the face of these threats, including the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Information on business continuity planning is easy to find but can be difficult to work through. Terminology, required content, and planning barriers often prevent progress. This volume solves such problems by guiding readers, step-by-step, through such actions as identifying hazards and assessing risks, writing critical functions, forming teams, and encouraging stakeholder participation. In essence, this volume serves as a business continuity planning coach for people new to the process or seeking to strengthen and deepen their ongoing efforts. By engaging stakeholders in a business continuity planning process, businesses can protect employees, customers, and their financial stability. Coupled with examples from recent disasters, planners will be able to inspire and involve stakeholders in creating a more resilient workplace. Designed for both educators and practitioners, Business Continuity Planning: Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters walks users through how to understand and execute the essential steps of business continuity planning.- Presents evidence-based best practices coupled with standard operating procedures for business continuity planning in a stepwise, user-oriented manner- Includes numerous examples and case studies bringing the ideas and procedures to life- Provides user-friendly materials and resources, such as templated worksheets, checklists, and procedures with clear instructions, making the volume engaging and immediately operational
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgment and the Dedication
- Chapter 1: What is business continuity planning?
- Chapter 2: Setting the stage
- Chapter 3: Pre-planning steps to launch BCP
- Chapter 4: Parts of a business continuity plan
- Chapter 5: Planning for disruptions
- Chapter 6: Managing human resources
- Chapter 7: Strengthening and testing your business continuity plan
- Chapter 8: Becoming more resilient
- Appendix 1: Emergency response planning basics
- Appendix 2: Mitigation planning basics
- Appendix 3: Essential tools and resources for business continuity planning
- Index