ISO 22301:2019 – Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)

Overview

How confident is your organisation to continue operating despite a major interruption? Loss of IT systems is the most common interruption suffered by organizations, regardless of size or sector, but how would you fare with other problems, such as:

Severe weather
Pandemics or other disease outbreaks
Terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure
Flooding
Fire
Theft
Transport system failure
Major industrial accident
Any other threat particularly relevant to your organization

Often times, when the unexpected happens (eg, extended periods of rain, flooding, a key employee being ill, a long power-cut), a lack of business continuity planning has made it difficult for organizations to continue their activities. Some organisations actually go out of business as a result. Hence, ISO 22301 – Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) was introduced by the International Organization for Standardization. Once implemented, your organization can choose to get certified by Certifying Bodies.

Why Business Continuity Management System?

The realities of a globalized and highly competitive world is that fulfilling customer’s orders in a timely manner wherever they are in the world is pivotal.
The cost of a mishandled crisis is significantly higher than the cost of planning for a crisis.
A BCMS is a risk management strategy for your organisation.

What Can We Do For You?

MESH will be your implementation partner to guide your organization through the development of procedures and work processes to comply with the requirements of ISO 22301:2019. We also cater to customer who do not require a management system but want to have a robust business continuity plan(BCP) for their organisation.

We have a team of business leaders who have experience in various senior managerial roles in large local conglomerates and Multi-National Corporations (MNC). With the vast collective knowledge and practical industry experience, we are able to guide and advise teams from any industrial sector. We are able to carry out implementation workshops and also business continuity plan (BCP) testing workshops.

Our Deliverables

Business Continuity Management Policy – sets a basic framework for the BCMS, determines the scope and responsibilities.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) questionnaires – analysis of qualitative and quantitative impacts on business and of necessary resources.
Business Continuity Strategy – defines critical activities, interdependencies, recovery time objectives, strategy for managing and ensuring business continuity, strategy for recovering resources, strategy for individual critical activities
Business Continuity Plan – a detailed description of how to respond to disasters or other business disruptions, and how to recover all critical activities

Training and Awareness Plan – a detailed overview of how employees will be trained to execute planned tasks, and how they will be made aware of the importance of business continuity
Business Continuity Exercising and Testing Plan – describes how plans will be exercised and tested with the objective of identifying necessary corrective actions and improving the plan
BCMS Maintenance and Review Plan – a detailed overview of how plans and other BCMS documents should be maintained to ensure their functioning in the case of business disruption
Post-incident Review Form – a form used for reviewing effectiveness of plans after an incident