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Serious disruptions such as a fire, flood, storm or loss of IT can occur with minimal warning but have a significant impact.
Your emergency plan will identify potential threats to the services and activities you offer. You can then outline the actions required should such an event occur, helping you resume normal activities at the earliest opportunity.
How to build an emergency plan
There are 3 key steps to creating an emergency plan.
Step 1 – Threat assessment
Identify and understand the key threats, for example, storms, floods, lightning, adverse weather, fire, theft, and vandalism.
Step 2 – Incident planning and management
Develop an emergency plan to assist in the immediate aftermath of an event.
Step 3 – Incident planning and management
Review, practice, and update your plan on a periodic basis.
You can find detailed guidance on each of the steps, including templates and worked examples, below. The guidance will help you understand the key elements of an emergency plan so that you can develop your own.