Business Continuity

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Business Policing in Victoria

Business Continuity

Most large-scale businesses have a continuity plan to ensure that they can continue to operate in the event of a major incident, maintaining business activity.

Most plans cover disruption from fire or flood and risk of terrorist attack Regardless of how big or small the business is, the important questions to ask are: Is the business continuity plan fit for purpose? Are your plans reviewed regularly as trading circumstances change? How do your plans impact on your neighbours?

Establishing or even enhancing your contingency plans will help to protect your business interests and staff. We could even save your company money, as this planning is usually conducted by commercial security companies for a fee.

Paper Feed Workshops (Stage 1)

This is an interactive session that allows business delegates to consider all options and their reactions to any major incident.

Table Top Exercises (Stage 2)

This creates another dimension by role-playing major incidents in the classroom.

Mock Incidents (Stage 3)

This allows businesses, police and local authorities to act out their contingency plans on site.

Business Forum

This is a quarterly forum designed to allow business delegates to bring together their expertise and share best practice. These meetings are usually themed to get the best out of each session.

Business Continuity Consultation

This is a new field that Victoria BID are exploring and will ultimately allow business continuity experts to attend your place of business and audit your existing plans in confidence and offer advice and guidance on how to improve them. This also includes mapping of muster points to make sure that these don’t clash with your neighbours.

Information Packs

In partnership with Westminster City Council contingency planners, Victoria policing teams are delivering business continuity information packs to all businesses.