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A monthly update on risk management topics
October/November 2016

Disaster Planning: What About Post-Event Recovery?

Disaster planning that doesn’t incorporate business continuity is incomplete. The value of business continuity is providing reassurance to employees, clients, and other third party stakeholders that leadership is accountable and responsible for safeguarding the institution. Business continuity provides strong evidence that the leadership has incorporated a strategic direction to safeguard life safety, determined risk mitigation, identified actionable steps to continue operations and protect the revenue and reputation of the organization. 

The Value of Business Continuity Planning:

  • trust and reliance
  • safeguarding and placing a high value on the lives of employees, clients, visitors
  • engagement with the community
Crisis and Emergency: Getting the Terminology Correct


Does your team tend to use the terms “crisis” and “emergency” interchangeably? Does your Crisis Plan clearly delineate what events are classified as crises or emergencies? 
 
Using these terms interchangeably and without proper definition tends to blunt their impact. Let’s add “disruption” to the list and define each.
Disruption: not life-threatening; can impact reputation and revenue
Emergency: life threatening; potential loss of major assets
Crisis: catastrophic consequences to life, reputation, revenue
 
Understanding the differences in these scenarios, and establishing definitions, thresholds, and triggers for these scenarios can help improve your business continuity plan.
Business Continuity Aspects:

  • strategy (policy, standards, procedures)
  • risk assessment (identify scenarios, vulnerabilities, mitigation techniques)
  • continuity of operations plan (definitions, thresholds, triggers)
  • communications (internal, external, mass notification)
  • drilling (test, exercise, document, improve)
  • emergency plan
  • crisis plan
  • scenario playbooks (high probability/low impact, low probability/high impact)

To Do Today: For help understanding emergency planning and business continuity planning, contact us and let’s start a conversation.

Some interesting sites we like right now:

CDC’s Zombie Preparedness Plan

Halloween Home Security Tips

Hurricane Preparedness

FEMA’s Hurricane Matthew resources and updates

For more information, check out our website at www.invictusconsulting.com or email us.

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