Business Continuity Planning: Increasing Workplace Resilience to Disasters

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. 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 walks users through how to understand and execute the essential steps of business continuity planning. Presents evidence-based best practices coupled with standard operating procedures for business continuity planning in a stepwise, user-oriented mannerIncludes numerous examples and case studies bringing the ideas and procedures to lifeProvides user-friendly materials and resources, such as worksheets, checklists, and procedures with clear instructions, making the volume engaging and immediately operational INDICE: 1. What is Business Continuity Planning? 2. Setting the Stage 3. Pre-planning Steps to Launch BCP 4. Parts of a BCP 5. Planning for Disruptions 6. Managing Human Resources 7. Strengthening and Testing the BCP 8. Becoming More Resilient Appendix 1. Emergency Response Planning Basics 2. Mitigation Planning Basics 3. Essential Tools and Resources for BCP (worksheets, checklists, etc.)

• ISBN: 978-0-12-813844-1
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés