This training course follows the cycle, which is a best-practice model for implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processes in your organisation.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Properly implement Business Continuity end-to-end
• Ask the right questions when choosing a Recovery Site
• Develop a completed, customised plan
• Integrate Pandemic preparedness into your overall BCP
• Tackle Crisis Communications and media relations in a practical way
• Identify, analyse and address your organisation’s risks
• Achieve buy-in and commitment
• Organise people to enable continuous maintenance of the Business Continuity Plan
• Ensure confidence in the organisation’s recovery capability following a crisis
• Establish your organisation’s essential business processes, rate these in terms of criticality and identify the activities and necessary resources within each process
• Determine likely crisis scenarios and how these would impact operationally and financially on your organisation
• Determine whether to invest in an off-site recovery facility or rather accept certain work-arounds
• Ensure all agreed procedures for Crisis Management, emergency response, damage assessment, safety of staff, evacuation, trauma management, technical recovery and crisis communication are documented and updated
• Test the Disaster Recovery Plan to ensure it can be trusted
• Inform management and staff of the procedures and their role in the event of a disaster
• Ensure that the Business Continuity Plan and related documents are updated and accessible
• Prepare for upcoming APRA or other audits
• Ensure when changes in the business, services, risks or priorities occur that these are incorporated and plans are continually optimised