ISO 22301-2019-Business Continuity Management System
ISO 22301-2019-Business Continuity Management System
Plan for the disruption before it arrives, and show afterwards that the plan was exercised.
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By document type
| Category | Files |
|---|---|
| Manuals | 2 |
| Procedures & SOPs | 15 |
| Forms & Records | 17 |
| Checklists & Audit Tools | 8 |
| Training & Awareness | 3 |
| Guides & Work Instructions | 3 |
Key documents
| Reference | Document | Format |
|---|---|---|
| AGS-BCMS-MAN-01 | Business Continuity Management System Manual | Word |
| AGS-BCMS-PR-06 | Business Impact Analysis (BIA) | Word |
| AGS-BCMS-PR-09 | Business Continuity Plans and Response Structure | Word |
| AGS-BCMS-PR-11 | Exercise and Testing Programme | Word |
| AGS-BCMS-FR-09 | Business Continuity Plan Template | Word |
| AGS-BCMS-FR-06 | Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Worksheet | Word |
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Overview
ISO 22301:2019 specifies requirements for a business continuity management system (BCMS) — the arrangements that let an organisation prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptive incidents while critical activities keep running at predefined acceptable levels. Natural disasters, cyber-attacks, supply chain failure, pandemics and technology outages all sit inside that scope. The set follows the standard's own sequence under the ISO harmonised high-level structure (Annex SL) and the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
The operational weight sits in the business impact analysis and the continuity risk assessment, which establish what is critical, what it depends on, and the recovery time objective, recovery point objective and maximum tolerable period of disruption that govern the response. Strategy selection follows, then continuity plans, an incident response structure and warning arrangements; exercising, internal audit and management review close the cycle. Sharing Annex SL, ISO 22301 integrates with ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 31000, with implementation guidance in ISO 22313. Gap analysis and audit material are included for organisations working towards accredited third-party certification.
What this system covers
- Business impact analysis — critical activities, dependencies, RTO, RPO and maximum tolerable period of disruption
- Continuity risk assessment — threat scenarios, single points of failure and proportionate treatment
- Continuity strategy — people, premises, technology and supplier options against minimum acceptable service levels
- Plans and response structure — activation criteria, incident roles, escalation and stand-down
- Warning and communication — alerting staff, customers, suppliers and regulators during an incident
- Exercise and testing — desktop, walkthrough and live exercises, with reporting and follow-up
- Performance evaluation — monitoring, internal audit and management review of the defined scope
Who it's for
Business continuity and risk managers, operations directors and quality leads in organisations of any size, public, private or not-for-profit, who have been asked for a management system rather than a folder of recovery notes. The trigger is usually a certification decision, a customer contract, a regulator's expectations, or an incident that exposed how little was written down. You end with a defined scope, a completed impact analysis, exercised plans and an evidence trail an auditor can follow.
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