Essential and useful documents

General Templates

• Detailed Business Continuity plan components - An overview of what you should have in your plan
• Emergency pack (.pdf 45kb)
• Essential and useful items - A general checklist of items to be kept off site
• Staff Contact Tree (.rtf 61kb) - An example of an organisational chart
• 'To do' instructions immediately after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
• 'To do' instructions after the first hour after an incident (.pdf 69kb)
• Software and Hardware Inventory lists (.rtf 15kb)
• Business Impact Analysis Matrix (.rtf 10kb) - Find out how an incident can impact your business
• Critical Success factors in a crisis - A commonsense list of what is needed in a crisis
• Threat Vulnerability Matrix (.rtf 7kb) - Assess the likelihood of a particular event affecting your business
• A simple risk assessment diagram (.pdf 50kb)
• Traditional types of BCP rehearsals (.rtf 29kb) - Approaches to testing your plan you may wish to try