Emergency Planning Basics (3 of 4)
What is Business Continuity?
You may have heard about Business Continuity Plans - either generally, or in relation to Emergencies, or Emergency Planning.
A Business Continuity Plan is put in place to specify how an organisation will maintain its operations, services, and/or business, in the face of a disruptive event.
This disruptive event could be an emergency, such as a fire or flood, or it could be a planned event, such as a travel strike.
In comparison:
- An Emergency Plan is in place for unforeseen events, and aims to reduce or minimise damage - by planning the immediate reaction to an event
- A Business Continuity Plan is in place for both planned and unforeseen events, and aims to maintain or recover business operations in the most effective way possible - by planning how to deal with the effects of an event
There is a lot of common ground between these two plans and they are often combined, or produced to work in tandem.
