An EPOs perspective on BCM

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An EPOs perspective on BCM

• Dawn Paish
• Emergency Planning Officer
• London Borough of Newham

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• Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• Local Authorities are required to maintain plans
  to ensure they can continue to perform their
  functions in the event of an emergency, and to
  base these plans on comprehensive risk
  assessments, to exercise and review these plans,
  and to publish them.
• In other words the GOOD PRACTICE of Business
  Continuity Management becomes a statutory
  requirement.

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• No one plans to fail, they only fail to plan.
• (Anon)

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• BCM is a process that helps the council to
  continue to provide services to the community if
  there are serious disruptions such as power loss,
  flooding or other emergencies. (EP)

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• Business Continuity Management is an important
  constituent of risk management -
• the overall process by which risks are
  identified, evaluated and controlled.

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• Emergency Planning is an important constituent of
  risk management - the overall process by which
  risks are identified, evaluated, controlled and
  dealt with if they develop into a crisis.

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• BCM / EP
• Encompasses crisis management and disaster
  recovery.

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• BCM/EP is an essential component of being
  prepared to meet any crisis.

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• BCM supports EP by holding all the various
  departmental plans together, dovetailing into the
  Major Incident Plan, to retain core service
  functions.

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• EPOs and BC professionals share a determination
  to learn from every incident.
• They share a determination to expedite the
  recovery process.

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