Contingency Planning
Contingency planning should be an integral part of your overall
business continuity management process. Business Continuity
and emergency planning requires a thorough review of your
organization's entire operation for safety and operational
vulnerabilities. Following a business impact assessment (BIA)
methodology, you should review essential operations as well
as key suppliers, business, and data partners as well as infrastructure
components that are deemed vital. Planning must include detailed
contingency plans that will guide your organization in performing
its critical functions during a disruption or disaster.
All Hands can assist you with this process by identifying
all critical processes and by evaluating threats at every
location, identifying all the key components, their interdependencies,
and their relative importance.
This planning will include:
- A review of all hazards and threats quantifying
the potential for impact.
- Triage to identify processes, systems, functions,
and partners that are most critical and at risk.
- Developing contingency and disaster-recovery
plans for each process.
- Identification of mitigation steps.
- A review of the functionality, practicality,
and cost-benefit of various contingency and recovery options.
- Crisis communication and notification plans
for employees and stakeholders.
Contingency Plan
We will develop specific details of your individual contingency
plans by working closely with your users and IT personnel.
Contingency plans will address the following areas:
- Objective of the plan (e.g., continue
normal operations, continue in a degraded mode, abort the
function as quickly as safely possible, etc.)
- Criteria for invoking the plan (e.g., local
disaster, experiencing serious system failures, etc.)
- Expected life of the plan (How long can operations
continue in contingency operating mode?)
- Roles, responsibilities and authority
- Plan creation and checkout of resource constraints
to plan for each contingency and objective
- Training on and testing of plans
- Procedures for operating in contingency
mode
- Resource plan for operating in contingency
mode (e.g., staffing, scheduling, materials, supplies, facilities,
temporary hardware and software, communications, etc.)
- Criteria for returning to normal operating
mode
- Procedures for returning to normal operating
mode
- Procedures for recovering lost or damaged
data.
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