Emergency Planning and Business Continuity: The Plan You Can Use at 5am
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Tell emergency procedures from business continuity, and what the law requires; and put people first in the first hours of an incident.
- Assign to
- Managers
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Evidence
- 10-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Tell emergency procedures from business continuity, and what the law requires.
- Put people first in the first hours of an incident.
- Write a continuity plan that works when systems are down.
- Test the plan, recover, and improve it afterwards.
The course
- 01Two plans, one aim
- 02The first hours
- 03A plan people can use
- 04Test it, recover, improve
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite Harriet’s continuity plan”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “The first four hours” and “Two Monday mornings”.
How you know they finished
The 10-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 10-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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