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Emergency Planning for your Business Workshop
Is your business adequately prepared to continue operating during an emergency (earthquake, terrorist act, epidemic, etc.)?
Program Description
CIFFA’s full day Emergency Planning for your Business Workshop is designed to make participants aware of how an emergency can impact their business, and how to prepare their business to reduce that impact.
Why Attend?
- Many businesses do not adequately plan and prepare for emergencies, and are therefore at risk.
- Learn how to mitigate the risk and be prepared – save time, money and customers.
- According to RSM Tenon Group Plc. (2009):
- 90% of firms that lose data from a disaster are forced to close within 2 years.
- 80% of businesses without a Business Continuity Plan are forced to close within 12 months of a fire or flood.
- 43% of businesses experiencing a disaster never recover.
- 50% of companies experiencing a computer outage are forced to shut within 5 years.
Who should attend?
- Branch Managers, General Managers, Directors.
What will you learn?
- How to analyze an emergency scenario, and make decisions to provide business continuity.
- What are the major impacts to business.
- How decisions, the timing of decisions, and the sequence of decisions affect business continuity and how to reduce the “domino effect”.
- What are the risks to business, and how to prioritize those risks.
- How to mitigate risks, and how to prioritize those risk mitigation methods.
- Key elements of a business continuity plan.
- How to develop a business continuity action plan for your organization.
How will you learn?
- Simulation.
- Small Group/Team exercises.
- Brainstorming.
- Large Group discussions.
- Individual activities.
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