article thumbnail

6 Ways to Elevate Your Testing and Exercising Program

Fusion Risk Management

Functional Exercises : These involve the actual execution of certain tasks or processes, such as sending employees to work from an alternate site. Communicate Results : Share the findings from tests with stakeholders to maintain transparency and drive improvements. They validate specific strategies but can be resource-intensive.

article thumbnail

A Toolkit to Build Enterprise Resiliency

eBRP

Toolkits integrated communication suite supports seamless collaboration across locations and teams. With enhanced visibility, continuous testing, seamless communication, and real-time data insights, Toolkit helps organizations maintain robust resiliency, adapt to emerging risks, and drive sustained operational success.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary. Depending on when services can be restored at the primary location, it might not make sense to perform a recovery at the alternate site.

article thumbnail

Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

Crisis Communications. Internal & External Communications plans & templates. At a minimum, one identified method of communication is always available including email/instant message, land-line telephones, and cellular telephones. Loss of Workplace : Only one primary site or location is impacted or disrupted at any time.

article thumbnail

Three to Get Ready: The 3 Key Areas of Business Continuity

MHA Consulting

For example, if a gas leak across the street prevents your staff from entering your facility, and no plans have been made to enable them to work from home or at an alternate site, you might be unable to deliver goods and services to your customers, possibly prompting some of them to switch to your competitors.)

article thumbnail

Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable? How would you communicate with the team members if you could not be in the same location?

article thumbnail

Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

In the exercise, we simulated the loss of the depot and simulated the staff and vehicles operating from their designated alternative sites. There didn’t seem to be a plan for the implementation of this or the appropriate communications ready. The plan was great until we exercised it!