David Gilmore

This Practice Note Business continuity plan (BCP) flowchart is designed to help you navigate our BCP Precedents.

This Practice Note explains what a business continuity plan (BCP) is, looks at industry standards requirements in relation to BCPs, and provides guidance on formulating a BCP, including a Business Impact Analysis (BIA).

This Precedent business continuity plan contains suggested procedures to help you ensure that if your business is interrupted, you can become fully operational as quickly as possible and, in doing so, protect your staff, clients and any other parties with whom you have dealings.

This Precedent will help you to conduct an annual review of your business continuity arrangements.

This is a Precedent cascade or communication system that you can use as part of your business continuity plan (BCP) procedures. You should ensure all staff are covered.

This Precedent business continuity plan (BCP) key contacts list is a schedule for recording the names and contact details of all personnel and other contacts and suppliers who play a key role in delivering and maintaining the organisation’s BCP and recovery process.

This Precedent Business continuity plan (BCP) priority list of functions and detailed risk assessment makes up a part of our BCP suite of Precedents. It is intended to help you give detailed consideration to the actions that will be taken in the event that a specific business continuity risk materialises. It also encourages you to review the key elements of the business that are needed to continue trading while considering the impact to those functions that a business interruption might have. This Precedent is produced in partnership with DG Legal.

This Precedent risk assessment provides examples of the sorts of matters you should consider and examples of mitigation measures you could apply to your own business in conducting your business continuity plan risk assessment. This table is illustrative of common business continuity risks faced by organisations. The specific risks to individual organisations may vary.

This is a Precedent for a Business continuity plan (BCP) schedule of testing. You should test the BCP to ensure it is effective and document tests carried out and include results and actions taken as a result of testing. You can use this Precedent for that purpose.

This Precedent presentation has been designed as an aid to train your staff on your Business continuity plan (BCP) arrangements.