ISO 22301 BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

What is ISO 22301?

Understand and prioritize the key significant threats to your business with the international standard for business continuity. ISO 22301 specifies the requirements for a system to reduce the likelihood of, protect against, and ensure your business recovers from major or minor disruptive incidents.

Business continuity management system is about building and improving resilience in your business; it’s about identifying your key products and services and the most urgent activities that underpin them and then, once that ‘analysis’ is complete, it is about devising plans and strategies that will enable you to continue your business operations and enable you to recover quickly and effectively from any type disruption whatever its size or cause. It gives you a solid framework to lean on in times of crisis and provides stability and security. In fact, embedding ISO 22301 standard into your business is proven to bring business benefits.

Business Continuity Management System is defined as the capability of the organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable predefined levels following a disruptive incident

Research shows that ISO 22301 registered companies gain an ‘immediate competitive advantage’ over their rivals, and consistently achieve more sales and profits under adverse conditions.

How will ISO 22301 help your company?

Most companies opt to achieve certification for key business reasons including:

  • Keeping critical functions up and running smoothly during times of crises
  • Manage and Identify current and future threats to your business
  • Improve recovery time and minimize downtime during incidents
  • Having a proactive approach to reducing the impact of incidents
  • Demonstrate resilience to suppliers, customers and for tender requests
  • Competitive advantage over rivals
  • Requirement within ‘invitations to tender’ and ‘supply chains’

How will ISO 22301 help your company?

Most companies opt to achieve certification for key business reasons including:

  • Keeping critical functions up and running smoothly during times of crises
  • Manage and Identify current and future threats to your business
  • Improve recovery time and minimize downtime during incidents
  • Having a proactive approach to reducing the impact of incidents
  • Demonstrate resilience to suppliers, customers and for tender requests
  • Competitive advantage over rivals
  • Requirement within ‘invitations to tender’ and ‘supply chains’

Our Key Principles

The IMS mission and philosophy is based on three ‘Key Principles’ which supports towards successful certification and compliance:
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Your Next Step

To find out how to take advantage of our Certification Scheme, arrange a no-obligation meeting with one of our professional IMS Consultants who will be pleased to discuss your company’s certification requirements.