Posted 03 March 2011 - 01:34 AM
Hi Shabani,
A lot of the comments by various members have ben useful.
I have wriiten several Business coninuity Plans for SQF 2000.
The key elements of this plan is to prepere for the unthinkable by avoiding being caught off guard by a sitaution and how to prepere for such an event and how to respond, manage and recover from it.
Managing the risk of business interruption requires strategies to both prevent the occurence and reduce its impact. these can include:
- Business Continuity Management
- Crisis and Emergency Management
- Introduccing back up supply arrangements
- Outsourcing critical functions to spread the risk
- Adjusting inventory control strategies
- Establishing spare capacity/back up production capabilities
- Recovery of lost data
First you will have to formalise a Crisis management team and set out its:
- Working methods and resposne and recovery actions
- Group and Individual responsibilities
- Process for notification, mobilization, escalation and de-escalation
- Mutaual aid arrangements
- Operational and Streategic issues and implications to be considered
- Processes and actions to ensure effective communications: management to government, regulators, partners, customers, staff and general community
- Specific approaches to and consideration for dealing with the media
- data colection and maintenance logs
You should also include the following people as part of the Business Continuity plan:
- insurance Broker
- Solicitor
The business continuity plan will take time to write and you can condust a mock scenario and test it.
I hope the following book helps you with your quest as it is a good book :
Crisis Management in the Food and Drinks Industry: a Practical Approach
by Collin Doeg
2nd Edition,. 2005, xx 263pp
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0387-23282-6
Good luck
Regards
Ajay Shah
Dr Ajay Shah.,
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCE(FE)
Managing Director & Principal Consultant
AAS Food Technology Pty Ltd
www.aasfood.com