ISO 22301

Business Continuity Management Systems

Business Continuity Management Systems

Minimize the impact of disruptive incidents with the international standard for business continuity.

Minimize the impact of disruptive incidents with the international standard for business continuity.
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Minimizing the impact of disruptive incidents and reducing their likelihood is key to protecting your workers and your organization.

That means having the ability to recover from unforeseen events. Understanding and prioritizing threats allows you to take a proactive approach to minimizing their impact.

ISO 22301, the international standard for business continuity, can help achieve these objectives and build resilience by specifying the requirements for a robust management system that can protect your organization.

What are the benefits of business continuity management?

  • Identify and manage current and future threats to your business
  • Take a proactive approach to minimizing the impact of incidents
  • Keep critical functions up and running during times of crises
  • Minimize downtime during incidents and improve recovery time
  • Demonstrate resilience to customers, suppliers, and for tender requests
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Prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptions with ISO 22301

  • Identify and manage current and future threats to your organization.
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    Proactively minimize the impact of incidents.
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    Keep critical functions up and running during times of crises.
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    Minimize downtime during incidents and improve recovery time.
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    Demonstrate resilience to customers and suppliers while strengthening your tenders.

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Learn more about ISO 22301 - Business Continuity Management Systems.

What is ISO 22301 business continuity management systems?

ISO 22301 enables you to minimize the impact of unforeseen incidents by understanding the threats to your business and enable you to safeguard against risk.

What is the ISO 22301 definition of business continuity?

ISO 22301 defines business continuity as an organization's capability to continue delivering products and services within acceptable timeframes, at predefined capacity, during a disruption.

What sizes of organization use ISO 22301?

The standard helps organizations of all sizes to implement, maintain and improve their own ISO 22301 business continuity management system.

What are the benefits of ISO 22301?

Implementing ISO 22301 enables your organization to:

  • Enhance organizational resilience.
  • Improve risk management processes.
  • Ensure a systematic response to crises.
  • Increase trust among stakeholders.

How does my organization start implementing ISO 22301?

ISO 22031 is based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.

  • Plan: Understand external context and needs of interested parties. Identify risk and
    opportunity. Establish objectives and resources required.
  • Do: Implement what has been planned – from a new Business Continuity Management System down to small process changes.
  • Check: Monitor and measure the effectiveness of the business continuity. Test business continuity plans and monitor outcomes.
  • Act: Take action where necessary based on monitoring, measuring and other drivers for action.

To adopt and implement ISO 22301, do we need a copy of the standard?

If you're implementing ISO 22301, you will require a copy of the standard.

What are the requirements of ISO 22301?

ISO 22301 requires you to implement and maintain processes for analysing business impact and assessing risk. It empowers you to to consider the internal and external resources required, and establish business continuity plans and procedures.

What Business Continuity Management Systems (ISO 22301) training can I do?

Our range of ISO 22301 training courses and qualifications can support you wherever you are on your learning journey.

We can help you gain knowledge of the standard and learn the systems, tools, and techniques to implement and/or audit against ISO 22301.

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