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Terrorism, natural disasters, or hazardous materials threaten the viability for all types of businesses. With an eye toward business scale, scope, and diversity, Business Conti… Read more
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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.
Emergency Managers, Business Continuity Planners, and Risk Managers. Emergency Management education/degree programs
Chapter One. The Challenges of Business Continuity Planning
Introduction
What Most Businesses Do (Not Do) in a Disaster
Hazards that Become (Business) Disasters
Types of Disaster Planning
The Benefits of Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Essential Principles for BC Planning
Upcoming Chapters
Chapter Two. Setting the Stage
The Challenges of Business Continuity Planning
The Effects of Disasters on Businesses
Essential Actions for Starting the Planning Process
Chapter Three. Pre-planning Steps to Launch BCP
Introduction
Hazard Identification
Risk Assessment
Loss Estimation
Business impact analysis
Determining Acceptable Losses
Mitigating Losses
Essential Actions
Chapter Four. Parts of a Business Continuity Plan
Scenarios and Decision-Making
Critical Functions
Assets and Workarounds
Essential Partnerships
Essential Actions to Take
Chapter Five. Managing Disruptions
Introduction
Infrastructure Disruptions
Downtime Management
Displacement Management
Restoring Critical Functions
Essential Actions
Chapter Six. Managing Human Resources
Introduction
Case Examples
The Critical Role of Human Resources Management
What Employees May Experience
What Employers May Experience
Navigating Recovery
Essential Actions
Chapter 7. Strengthening and Testing your Business Continuity Plan
Introduction
Training on the BCP
Creating scenarios
· Exercises
Virtual/Simulations
· Creating a culture of preparedness
Essential Actions
Chapter 8. Becoming More Resilient
Introduction
Resilience
Mitigation
The Recovery Process
Essential Actions
Appendix1. Emergency Response Planning Basics2. Mitigation Planning Basics3. Essential Tools and Resources for BCP (worksheets, checklists, etc.)
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