Contingency Planning and Resilience Analysis

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Version 1, April 2019

The key principle behind Contingency Planning and Resilience Analysis is to continue operation of an organisation and the services and/or products it provides when faced with a significant disruption.

An organisation needs to consider the possibility of disruption and resultant damage to, or loss of, operational continuity. If an organisation is resilient, the risk of disruption, damage or loss to operations is lessened.

For any organisation, there will be a range of credible potential threats and/or events, however remote, which could cause disruption, damage or loss. These events, which may come from internal or external sources, may impact on assets, people and/or the environment associated with the organisation. If an organisation has Contingency Plans in place
covering a range of eventualities, the risk of disruption, damage or loss can be significantly reduced (through the implementation of mitigations), and its resilience will be increased. Therefore, a business with sufficient Contingency Planning in place to cover reasonably foreseeable eventualities and to allow it to be adaptive to all eventualities will be highly resilient.