The ISO 22301 Business Continuity standard is designed to support your organization understands and properly manages risks to your business. It needs you to plan, establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain, and constantly develop your business continuity management system (BCMS). This will decrease the chance of a disruptive happening occurring and, if the worst were to happen, you will be in a situation to respond more efficiently, protecting your company, its employees and its clients in the process.

The ISO 22301 covers the needs for a robust business continuity management system, which will permit the company to minimize the risk associated with disruptions and to make sure control is maintained at all times.

Any organization – huge or small, for profit or non-profit, private or public. The standard is conceived in such a way that it is applicable to any size or type of organization.

Implementing a strong Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) will aid your organization in speedily recovering from a disaster or disruption. The business BCM standard can also safeguard an organization against the proceeding reputation injure which can occur from missed deadlines, data leakages, operational or IT outages, industrial actions, disappointed customers or direct financial losses due to the disruption. Certification Europe recommends that each business has a plan in place to deal with potential disruptions and to keep away from excessive downtime and reduced productivity during the disruption.

Benefits of ISO 22301:2012

• Improved business decision making capability as the company will have a better understanding of threats to operations
• Supports safeguard the future of the business
• Improvement of business reputation leading to higher client retention through improved performance record
• Reduced risk of interruption to internal operations as a result of connection incidents