Protect your business

Emergencies can happen at any time and cause significant disruption to your business.

Blocked access routes, technology failures, and local flooding can all impact your business' productivity and ability to operate.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is about:

Identifying and understanding the risks that could affect your business, and
Planning how you will prevent or reduce their impact

Having a good business continuity plan will help you respond quickly and effectively in an emergency. It will help you protect your business from the negative impact an emergency can have.

This is especially important for small businesses, as they may have fewer resources to support them in an emergency.

Understand the risks that could affect your business

Sometimes it's the smaller risks that can have the biggest impact on your business. For example: your website going down, access routes being blocked, or a power cut.

Identifying risks specific to your business is crucial in your planning.

We work closely with our partners to identify and plan for serious risks in Norfolk that could result in an emergency. This includes extreme weather events, fire, and cyber attacks. These risks are detailed in the Norfolk Community Risk Register.

Use the Norfolk Community Risk Register to help you understand the risks that could affect your business.

Write your business continuity plan

When you have identified the risks, you need to plan how to prevent or reduce their impact on your business.

Making your business more resilient isn't complicated - it's likely you have all the answers already. Documenting them in a carefully thought-out business continuity plan will make coping in a crisis easier. It will minimise disruption to your business and your customers.

You can use the Federation of Small Businesses' step-by-step guide to business continuity to help you write your plan.

We have put together some scenarios to help you test your plan and develop strategies for different types of emergency:

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