Office Crisis Management and Business Continuity Plan

The purpose of the Plan is to:
- enable your company to respond appropriately and effectively in a crisis situation,
- recover and reinstate critical business processes within a very short timeframe,
- assign principal roles and responsibilities,
- provide management, staff and contractors with remote access to work processes and keep them informed of the situation on an ongoing basis,
- ensure that communications with clients, business partners, and vendors are maintained.
The plan is intended to be implemented in response to a situation where the company's employees are denied access to their normal business premises as a result of a fire, flood, explosion or other disaster, or in any situation where the location is effectively rendered inoperable, for example due to a prolonged loss of electrical power.
The Crisis Management Team will be made up of a number of key persons who will be responsible for ongoing evaluation of the situation, liaising with business allies, providing advice and guidance to staff, retaining control of the business, etc.
The Business Continuity Team will be responsible for:
- information systems recovery,
- administration and communications recovery,
- human resources recovery,
- risk management recovery,
- business unit recovery,
- activating third party recovery.
This in-depth template is available in MS Word format and is fully editable.
This Plan can be used anywhere.