WHAT IS ISO 22301 FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT?

With the rampant rise of consumerism, various organizations are popping up to cater to the huge and varied demands of the market. However, many fail to take into account, the risk associated with running a company, and may fall prey to them. This might cause disruption to the business operation, and even lead to its discontinuity. To prevent such scenario, it is important for an organization to put in place, a business continuity management system (BCMS) that assesses the risks and provides with the right course of actions to tackle and mitigate those risks. ISO 22301 is an international standard, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which aims at implementing BCMS in your organization.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF ISO 22301 CERTIFICATION?

• An effective and efficient BCMS helps in meeting your business objectives.
• Implementation of ISO 22301 helps in better assignment of roles and responsibilities to the staff and management.
• It gives an image boost for having robust and resilient business processes.
• Helps in building confidence of your customers and stakeholders.
• Prevention and mitigation of risks by timely identification.
• It helps in minimizing the down time so that the effect of disruption is reduced.
• The global acceptance of this standard makes your processes internationally recognized.

HOW CAN YOU GET ISO 22301 CERTIFICATION?

Following are the steps that should be followed to implement BCMS:

1. The key requirements and objectives must be informed to the employees and management.
2. Training and education of the relevant staff must be done.
3. Weaker areas must be identified through gap analysis.
4. project plan should be prepared.
5. Designation of roles and responsibilities to the staff and project managers.
6. Design and document the BCMS.
7. Implement the standards of ISO 22301 on your BCMS.
8. Perform an internal audit.
9. Invite external certification body, such as SIS Certifications for the ISO 22301 audits.

It must be noted that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) does not certify, it just publishes the ISO standards. An external body performs the certification. SIS Certifications is one such body which has a reputation for being one of the best in the world. Our vast pool of auditors is recognized for their expertise in comprehensively auditing the compliance of your management systems against the required standards and awarding you with the certifications at the end. The smoothness in the process, our integrity, and our commitment to deadlines make us stand apart from other certification bodies.

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