REFERENCE CHANNELS

Checklist for Business
Recovery Plan

The intent of this "Checklist" is to provide a means of creating a "Business Recovery" manual for your business. The manual would be used by you in the event that you had to execute a recovery of you business due to a natural or man-made disaster. This "Checklist" can be used by manufactures, corporate offices, retailers, utilities or any organization where a sizeable number of people work or gather.

Whether you operate from a high-rise building or an industrial complex; whether you own, rent or lease your property; whether you are a large or small company; the contents of this checklist will apply.

To begin, you needn’t have in-depth knowledge of emergency management. What you need is the authority to create a plan and a commitment from the chief executive officer or principal(s) of your company to make emergency management part of you company culture.

If you already have a plan, use this "Checklist" as a resource to apply business controls to the plan, if needed, or to assess the overall readiness and maintenance of your plan documentation.

The "Checklist" should be done four times:

LEVEL 1: Executive Awareness/Authority, (Executive Level)

LEVEL 2: Plan Development and Documentation (Executive Level)

LEVEL 3: Management and Recovery Team Assessment and Evaluation for Effectiveness (Mangement Level)

LEVEL 4: Management and Recovery Team Assessment of Readiness and Plan Maintenance (Recovery Team)

Standard Checklist Criteria For Business Recovery Plan Completed By :

Name:______________________________________________

Company:___________________________________________

Room:_______________

Street:______________________________________________

City, State, Zip:_______________________________________

Phone Number:______________________

Business Recovery Plan for :___________________________

Business Recovery Plan, (BRP)	Y	N	N/A
1) Has a BRP been:
a) Developed?
b) Updated within the last 6 months?
Business Recovery Plan (BRP)--LEVEL 2 (Plan Development and Documentation)
1) Has a classification (critical, important, marginal) been assigned to the Business Process/Function/Component that this Facility/Function supports?
2) Has a BRP been:
a) Documented?
b) Maintained?
3) Does the BRP include the following sections?
a) Identification?
b) Incident Management?
i) Responsible company officer?
ii) Personnel responsible for              updates?
c) Response?
d) Recovery?
e) Restoration?
f) Plan Exercise?
g) Plan Mainenance?
h) Business Recovery Teams and           Contact Information?
4) Does the BRP identify hardware and software critical to recover the Business and/or Functions?
5) Does the BRP identify necessary support equipment (forms, spare parts, office equipment, etc.) to recover the Business and/or Functions?
6) Does the BRP require an alternate site for recovery?
i) Does the BRP provide for mail service to be forwarded to the alternate facility?
ii) Does the BRP provide for other vital          support functions?
7) Are all critical or important data required to support the business being backed up?
i) Are they being stored in a protected          location?
8) Do you conduct a walk-through exercise of your Plan at least annually? (This should include a full walk-through as well as "elements" of your plan (i.e. accounts payable, receivable, shipping and receiving, etc.)
9) Do the walk-through element exercises have a prepared plan which includes:
a)Description
b) Scope
c) Objective
10) Is a current copy of the BRP maintained off-site?
11) Do all users of the BRP have ready access to a current copy at all times?
12) Is there an audit trail of the changes made to the BRP?
13) Do all employees responsible for the execution of the BDRP received ongoing training in Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management?

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