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spotlight on how quickly things can change for a business.  \n• You never really expect the unexpected, so it’s useful to plan ahead for change and crises.  \n• The Halifax Partnership has developed a Business Continuity Toolkit to help small-and medium-sized business plan for changes and crises, whether it is a pandemic or another type of disruption.  \nThe Why, What and How of the toolkit  \nWhy – The Halifax Partnership has prepared this guide to help small-and medium-sized business facing challenges in a time of crisis.  \nWhat – The toolkit is set of guides, templates, webinarsand additional resources which will help businesses with planning and building resilience to prepare and respond to crises, whether it’s a pandemic or any other critical challenge.  \nHow – The toolkit has been designed for busy people who are juggling many challenges. It can be used to create a resilience plan to prepare for major disruptionsand crises.  \nBusiness resilience overview  \nA business resilience program helps you to:  \n• Understand your business systems, supply chains, human resources and other types of critical resources  \n• Examine how each is affected by a disruption  \n• Develop responses to mitigate risks  \n• Communicate challenges and train teams  \n• Develop response plans  \n• Develop resilience and continuity plans and continue to revise and adapt them.  \nBusiness Resilience Lifecycle  \nContext & process understanding  \nBusiness resilience and continuity strategy  \nOn-going governance, awareness, maintenance & improvement  \nBusiness impact analysis & resource requirements  \nContinuity risk assessment  \nPlan training & exercising  \nPlan development  \nToolkit components  \n1. Impact analysis & resources guide  \n2. MS Excel workbook  \nContext & process understanding  \nBusiness impact analysis & resource requirements  \nContinuity risk assessment  \nPlan training & exercising  \nPlan development  \nBusiness resilience and continuity strategy  \n14. Resources: examples of exercise scenarios and injects  \n8. Continuity plan development guide  \n9-12. MS Word plan templates 13. Resources: return-to-work  \nchecklist  \n5. Gap analysis & strategy guide  \n6. MS Excel workbook  \n7. Resources: examples of recovery alternatives  \nWebinar \\#1 – Business Resilience Basics  \nWebinar \\#2 – Business Resilience Lessons from the Pandemic  \nWebinar \\#3 – BCM Toolkit Walkthrough  \n| |\n| --- |\n|  |\n| Methodology\u003Cbr>Developing Continuity Plans\u003Cbr>|\n\nContinuity plan development  \nThis guide will help you to develop the 4 types of continuity plans which are needed for a resilient business:  \n1. 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IT Disaster Recovery Plan: This type of plan includes documented procedures to assist the business to recover from an IT disruption, ensuring the effective recovery of key systems.  \nEmergency response plan  \nEmergency response plans (ERPs) are built for specific scenarios, for example, building evacuation or response to an ongoing cyber-attack.  \nThese plans focus on early detection and triage of negative events, which may escalate into an emergency ","cbCaia773rh0EbuP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia773rh0EbuP","pdf",854243,24,"English","# Welcome to the Business Continuity Toolkit\n## The Why, What and How of the toolkit\n## Business resilience overview\n## Business Resilience Lifecycle\n# Methodology: Developing Continuity Plans\n## Continuity plan development\n## Emergency response plan\n## Crisis management plan\n## Business continuity plan\n## IT Disaster Recovery Plan\n# Toolkit components\n## Webinar series","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Business Continuity Toolkit?\",\"answer\":\"The toolkit helps small-and medium-sized businesses plan ahead for change and crises by providing guidance, templates, webinars, and resources to build resilience and continuity plans.\"},{\"question\":\"What business resilience activities are included in the overview?\",\"answer\":\"The guide covers understanding critical systems and resources, examining disruption impacts, developing risk responses, communicating challenges, training teams, and developing and regularly revising response, resilience, and continuity plans.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the four types of continuity plans covered in the guide?\",\"answer\":\"The guide describes an Emergency Response Plan, a Crisis Management Plan, a Business Continuity Plan, and an IT Disaster Recovery Plan, each with documented procedures aligned to different crisis recovery needs.\"}]","Business Continuity Toolkit - Continuity Plan Development Methodology & Guide - March 2021 | PDF",1790107647,8]