Business Contingency Plan Template

Utilize this Business Contingency Plan Template to prepare emergency plans, communication and execution to ensure continuity in business operations.

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Business Contingency Plan Template

Utilize this Business Contingency Plan Template to prepare emergency plans, communication and execution to ensure continuity in business operations.

1. Do you have a contingency plan coordinator and/or team? (Write their name(s) in the comments; include personnel from all locations.)

2. Have you identified critical employees and inputs (suppliers, vendors, etc.) critical to maintaining business operations?

3. Have you identified, hired, and trained an ancillary workforce (contractors, temps, retirees, etc.) in advance?

4. Have you performed and documented a safety hazard assessment for the ancillary workforce and identified all necessary hazard control and reduction measures?

5. Have you planned for scenarios likely to result in an increase or decrease in demand for your products and/or services?

6. Have you determined the potential impact of a disruption on company business financials using multiple possible scenarios that affect different product lines and/or production sites?

7. Have you determined the potential impact of a pandemic, conflict, etc. on business-related domestic and international travel (e.g. quarantines, border closures)?

8. Have you identified sources of reliable information from community public health, emergency management, and other sources and placed the links in an area all involved personnel can access?

9. Have you forecasted employee absences due to factors such as personal illness, family member illness, community containment measures and quarantines, school and/or business closures, and public transportation closures?

1. Have you established an emergency communications plan? Has it been updated within the last two years or with the onset of a new hazard?

2. Does your communications plan include the identification of key contacts (with back-ups)?

3. Does your plan include a chain of communications (including suppliers and customers)?

4. Does your communication plan include processes for tracking and communicating business and employee status?

5. For multi-site and international companies, have you assigned a communications coordinator at each site?

1. Have you run a drill or tested your overall contingency plan?

2. Have you identified, hired, and trained safety trainers/consultants/personnel to manage risk reduction during change?

3. Have you set up authorities, triggers, and procedures for transferring business knowledge, keys, permissions, and authority to key employees?

4. Have you set up authorities, triggers, and procedures for activating and terminating the company’s contingency plan?

5. Have you communicated your contingency plan to all employees, vendors, and if needed, clients/customers who are affected?

6. Have you documented your contingency plan? Do all affected employees know how to/ have permission to access the documentation?

7. Have you determined the cost of executing your plan?

8. Have you allocated sufficient funds to execute your contingency plans at each location?

1. Do you have a contingency plan coordinator and/or team? (Write their name(s) in the comments; include personnel from all locations.)

2. Have you identified critical employees and inputs (suppliers, vendors, etc.) critical to maintaining business operations?

3. Have you identified, hired, and trained an ancillary workforce (contractors, temps, retirees, etc.) in advance?

4. Have you performed and documented a safety hazard assessment for the ancillary workforce and identified all necessary hazard control and reduction measures?

5. Have you planned for scenarios likely to result in an increase or decrease in demand for your products and/or services?

6. Have you determined the potential impact of a disruption on company business financials using multiple possible scenarios that affect different product lines and/or production sites?

7. Have you determined the potential impact of a pandemic, conflict, etc. on business-related domestic and international travel (e.g. quarantines, border closures)?

8. Have you identified sources of reliable information from community public health, emergency management, and other sources and placed the links in an area all involved personnel can access?

9. Have you forecasted employee absences due to factors such as personal illness, family member illness, community containment measures and quarantines, school and/or business closures, and public transportation closures?

1. Have you established an emergency communications plan? Has it been updated within the last two years or with the onset of a new hazard?

2. Does your communications plan include the identification of key contacts (with back-ups)?

3. Does your plan include a chain of communications (including suppliers and customers)?

4. Does your communication plan include processes for tracking and communicating business and employee status?

5. For multi-site and international companies, have you assigned a communications coordinator at each site?

1. Have you run a drill or tested your overall contingency plan?

2. Have you identified, hired, and trained safety trainers/consultants/personnel to manage risk reduction during change?

3. Have you set up authorities, triggers, and procedures for transferring business knowledge, keys, permissions, and authority to key employees?

4. Have you set up authorities, triggers, and procedures for activating and terminating the company’s contingency plan?

5. Have you communicated your contingency plan to all employees, vendors, and if needed, clients/customers who are affected?

6. Have you documented your contingency plan? Do all affected employees know how to/ have permission to access the documentation?

7. Have you determined the cost of executing your plan?

8. Have you allocated sufficient funds to execute your contingency plans at each location?