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Mutual Benefits of Business Continuity and Community Resilience
What is Community Resilience?
A community’s ability to recover from adverse events is a manifestation of its resilience.
- anticipate disasters by identifying high hazards, their potential direct impacts, and the cascade of consequences that may follow;
- limit impacts of disasters by preventing damage or protecting their systems;
- respond more effectively after disasters occur by quickly assessing the damage and taking action to restore essential services; and
- recover from disasters as rapidly as possible and begin anticipating the next event.
What is Business Continuity Planning?
Businesses - from the “Mom and Pops” on Main Street to the global conglomerates at the industrial park - have an important role to play in community resilience. Part of this responsibility falls within the framework of business continuity planning. Both property mitigation efforts to prevent structural damage and operational measures to restore critical business operations and work processes are critical elements in the planning process.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, one in four businesses forced to close after a disaster never reopens. This has long term implications for a community’s economy and vitality as it recovers from an extreme event.
Actions that define business continuity include:
- anticipating what can go wrong through a vulnerability assessment;
- putting plans in place to limit impacts;
- responding more effectively by determining what needs be done, who needs to do it, and how it can get done; and
- managing long term recovery, which may involve changes in functionality to get the results needed.
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What is Community Resilience?
A community’s ability to recover from adverse events is a manifestation of its resilience.
- anticipate disasters by identifying high hazards, their potential direct impacts, and the cascade of consequences that may follow;
- limit impacts of disasters by preventing damage or protecting their systems;
- respond more effectively after disasters occur by quickly assessing the damage and taking action to restore essential services; and
- recover from disasters as rapidly as possible and begin anticipating the next event.
What is Business Continuity Planning?
Businesses - from the “Mom and Pops” on Main Street to the global conglomerates at the industrial park - have an important role to play in community resilience. Part of this responsibility falls within the framework of business continuity planning. Both property mitigation efforts to prevent structural damage and operational measures to restore critical business operations and work processes are critical elements in the planning process.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, one in four businesses forced to close after a disaster never reopens. This has long term implications for a community’s economy and vitality as it recovers from an extreme event.
Actions that define business continuity include:
- anticipating what can go wrong through a vulnerability assessment;
- putting plans in place to limit impacts;
- responding more effectively by determining what needs be done, who needs to do it, and how it can get done; and
- managing long term recovery, which may involve changes in functionality to get the results needed.
QuakeUpNW.org
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