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BCM publications are available on the Documents page
Business Continuity The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 placed a duty on local authorities to put in place business continuity management arrangements and also provide assistance to local businesses and voluntary organisations about business continuity management.
Generic advice & assistance The Act specifies that local authorities have a duty to provide generic advice and assistance to the business community at large. This is a light-touch duty aimed at raising business continuity awareness among those undertaking commercial activities. This is “free of charge” in the Tees Valley.
Specific advice and assistance Local authority officials can undertake this type of work themselves if they have the experience and competence to do so. Local authorities can work with individual organisations to establish the nature of the risks they face and the steps they can take to manage these risks.
Signposting third party advice With the exception of numerous large organisations, most people responsible for business continuity are not professionals and may, require guidance when purchasing business continuity advice, services or facilities. Experience in the City of London has shown that firms value the role that local authorities can play in acting as an ‘ honest broker’ in this way.
Advice to businesses Every business activity is at risk of disruption from a variety of threats, which vary in magnitude from catastrophic through to trivial, and include fire, flood, loss of utility supplies and the accidental or malicious damage of assets or resources. For example, a minor electrical fire or a burst water pipe may cause limited damage to assets, but if those assets are vital to service delivery, then the result can seriously impair the organisation's capability to deliver that service.
For further information contact: Cleveland Emergency Planning Unit. Telephone: 01642 221121
Various documents relating to BCM are available on the Documents page
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