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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary. Depending on when services can be restored at the primary location, it might not make sense to perform a recovery at the alternate site.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable? How would you communicate with the team members if you could not be in the same location?

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

In the exercise, we simulated the loss of the depot and simulated the staff and vehicles operating from their designated alternative sites. There didn’t seem to be a plan for the implementation of this or the appropriate communications ready. The plan was great until we exercised it!

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

In the exercise, we simulated the loss of the depot and simulated the staff and vehicles operating from their designated alternative sites. There didn’t seem to be a plan for the implementation of this or the appropriate communications ready. The plan was great until we exercised it!

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Why the Business Continuity Plan Must Be a Living Document

Diligent

Emergency communications. Alternative sites. Personnel issues – absence or inability to get to any alternative location. Cover all the aspects of your operations that might be impacted by an outage or disaster, including: Power supply. Telephone and internet connectivity. IT and other systems. Data management.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

Crisis Communications. Internal & External Communications plans & templates. At a minimum, one identified method of communication is always available including email/instant message, land-line telephones, and cellular telephones. Loss of Workplace : Only one primary site or location is impacted or disrupted at any time.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

Denial of access to site’, ‘3. Relocation Sites Work area recovery centers (hotels where businesses can relocate following a disruption) will be a hard sell after this crisis ends. One assumption that goes out the door is far shore alternate sites and all those travel plans. Loss of people’, ‘2.

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