tailieunhanh - NEPA and Environmental Planning : Tools, Techniques, and Approaches for Practitioners - Chapter 11

Kế hoạch khẩn cấp cho liên tục của các kinh doanh hoạt động Cũng như câu chuyện Kinh Thánh của Ark Noah, vật chứng và tài liệu phong phú cho thấy rằng trong suốt quá trình lịch sử nhân loại, các hình thức khác nhau của quy hoạch đã được thực hiện để bảo vệ các cộng đồng từ các thảm họa tự nhiên. Ngày nay, trong một thế giới ngày càng đông đúc và mâu thuẫn, tất cả các tổ chức, bất kể rủi ro kích thước khuôn mặt của họ, cơ sở của họ và các hoạt động kinh doanh | 11 Emergency Planning for Continuity of Business Operations As with the biblical story of Noah s Ark ample physical and documentary evidence shows that throughout the course of human history different forms of planning have been undertaken to protect communities from natural disasters. Today in an increasingly crowded and conflicted world all organizations regardless of their size face risks to their facilities and business operations. While a small organization may consider itself to be uncomfortably vulnerable to an incident or disaster a very large organization might face truly unacceptable risks due to its sheer size and complexity. The process of assessing and managing the business of continuing operations also known as business continuity planning BCP has thus become a crucial and necessary reality for ensuring the continuity and survival of government and business organizations. In an effort to demonstrate this need the following discussion outlines the reasons why a business continuity program should be implemented explains its benefits and describes the processes that support its management throughout the lifetime of an organization. In the past conventional forms of business continuity might have included buying adequate fire insurance having sufficient fire extinguishers on hand and routinely conducting fire drills. However in the current environment several factors have combined to make insurance and passive deterrents inadequate for dealing with continuity issues. These factors include tougher legislation in certain areas increased health and safety concerns privacy and security issues rise in insurance costs and insurance industry mandates for organizations to actively manage their business risks a greater likelihood of liability exposure due to legal action and a high reliance on technology and sometimes its disparate infrastructure. Understandably the importance of business continuity has changed over time. Operational risks are many and varied .