Business Continuity Forms
Instructions
Copy each blank form to your hard drive or network and save each as an original. You can make duplicate copies – just be sure to name each one and save the blank form as an original.
Note: If the forms in the Business Continuity Forms folder are not in numerical order, this is due to the way your operating system sorts the documents. Please fill out the forms in numerical order.
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The Business Continuity Plan – 13 Forms
When completed, you will have a customized plan to help you stay Open for Business ®. Before you start, gather the information you will need to complete the individual records for each form.
You will start by entering the following:
You will then identify critical
These business functions are the ones crucial to your survival and to resumption of business operations. You will select the employees, supplier/vendors and/or key contacts you need to fulfill these business functions from the records you have completed for the first three forms.
You will fulfill these business functions at your recovery location, whether it is an alternate site, shared space with a similar business, your home, or your primary place of business because you are location dependent.
The next four forms contain items that are needed to perform your essential business functions at your recovery location:
You will list which business function(s) is (are) associated with each vital record, critical telephone number, supply or piece of equipment, so that the people responsible for that business function have everything necessary to get the work done.
The following three forms contain items that all employees at the recovery location will use:
The last form is a checklist of items to help assure the safety of employees and others on the premises when a disaster happens, and to take care of everyone before help arrives:
