Maintain the operational details needed to protect critical supplies, services and resources; confirm whether alternatives are genuinely available and independent; set switching triggers; and keep supplier, logistics.

Create a clear, time-stamped record of what happened during a disruption, which decisions were made, who authorised them, what actions remain outstanding and what emergency costs or commitments were incurred.

Turn the most important gaps in your Business Continuity arrangements into specific actions with clear owners, realistic timeframes, target dates, status and evidence of completion.

Select the right type of Business Continuity test; build a proportionate testing programme; plan and conduct functional tests, tabletop exercises or controlled simulations; capture evidence; identify Lessons Identified.

Use this checklist when the Business Continuity Plan or selected continuity arrangements are activated. Adapt the sequence to the disruption and record the person responsible, completion time and any required...

Bring together the principal decisions and arrangements developed through your Business Continuity Planning process into one practical plan that your business can approve, access, activate, maintain and test.

Plan how your business will communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, partners, banks or insurers, regulators and the public during disruption and recovery. Use it to decide what each audience needs...

Clarify who owns the Business Continuity Plan, who can activate or deactivate it, who has authority to make critical decisions, who takes over if key leaders are unavailable, and who...

Turn priority vulnerabilities into practical continuity arrangements that can keep a critical activity operating, allow it to operate temporarily at a reduced level, restore it within the required timeframe, or...

Identify what each critical function depends on, uncover dependencies that could interrupt operations, challenge assumptions in your continuity planning, and identify single points of failure that require priority action.