In today’s uncertain world we must ensure that staff welfare is safeguarded and the future of the business is
secured should the unthinkable happen. According to the Business Continuity Institute, Business Continuity
Management is “an holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation and the
impacts to business operations that those threats, if realised might cause as well as providing a framework
for building organisational resilience with the capability for an effective response that safeguards the
interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities”
Business Continuity Policy
It is the policy of Securitas to: -
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Maintain a strategy for reacting to, and recovering from, adverse situations which is in line with senior
management’s level of acceptable risk
Maintain a programme of activity which ensures the company has the ability to react appropriately to, and
recover from, adverse situations in line with the business continuity objective
Maintain appropriate response plans underpinned by a clear escalation process
Exercise response and recovery plans periodically
Maintain a level of resilience to operational failure in line with the risk faced, the level of negative impact
which could result from failure and senior management’s level of acceptable risk
Maintain employee awareness of the company’s expectations of them during an emergency or business
continuity threatening situation
Take account of changing business needs and ensure that the response plans and business continuity
strategy are revised where necessary
Remain aligned with best practice in business continuity management
Risk Impact Assessment
The first step is to complete a Risk Impact Assessment covering the critical business processes that have
been identified and required resources determined to keep these processes running effectively. This
analysis will be maintained over time to take account of the changing business.
Business Continuity Strategy & Plans
Operations can continue to be supported in the event of a complete loss of a single Office, contents and
infrastructure through utilising a combination of unaffected branch, head and support office locations
Formal emergency response and business continuity plans exist to allow incidents to be managed
effectively and for return to business as usual status in the optimum time. Plans are tested periodically to
provide confidence that they would work in practice should they need to be used in earnest.
Be Prepared, Stay Safe
and know where to
find help should you need it.