Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

Disaster Recovery Testing
Untested contingency / recovery plans are of little value. Testing is far more than finding holes in the plan: it confirms the underlying assumptions are workable; it can also be a valuable training tool. More...

Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...

Principles and Practice of Business Continuity
This new book explores the subject of Business Continuity Management: from basic principles to best practices. More...

Manufacturing, Distribution Business Continuity
A new Business Continuity template specifically designed for manufacturing or distribution businesses with 1,150+ pages on CD-ROM. More...

Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...

Business Continuity and Risk Management
The First Ever College Textbook on Business Continuity and Risk Management — also a great reference source and self-study guide for business continuity practitioners and novices! More...

Safeguard your business: implement a business continuity plan

Written by Phil on January 20, 2010 in Business Continuity.

There has been a great deal of media coverage about swine flu. Not all of this has been helpful; some of the advice has been conflicting, or perhaps even misleading.

As ever, when there is no clear or definite guideline, the resultant confusion about what is and is not required leads to disparate conclusions, or none at all. In light of this new challenge to UK and worldwide businesses, law firm leaders need to focus on planning to make sure they are prepared for the potential effect on their workforce. However, knowing where to start is often the biggest problem. Every business is different, even firms working in the same field – such as law.

See Safeguard your business: implement a business continuity plan, by Mike Gorick for the Law Society Gazette.