Continuity Plans

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"Continuity planning helps facilitate the performance of an organization's essential functions during any situation that may disrupt normal operations. A continuity plan can encompass a wide range of topics such as functional roles and responsibilities, lines of authorities, alternate personnel and operations locations, logistics support, resource requirements, and systems for managing communication and information flow. The scale of an organization’s operations will dictate if one continuity plan will be sufficient or if multiple, discrete plans should be developed into a comprehensive continuity program. Continuity plans could be developed for escalating operations in the event of a natural disaster or manmade incident, black start contingencies, civil unrest, pandemics, labor unrest, or physical or cyber security breaches. These elements can be broken into separate plans or part of an overall continuity program. Regardless of the scope of the continuity plan or program, implementation of the continuity plan is conducted in four phases:

1. "Readiness and preparedness to develop, review, and revise continuity plans
2. "Activation of plans, procedures, and schedules for the continuation of essential functions
3. "Continuity operations to perform essential functions, account for personnel, establish communications capabilities, and prepare for reconstitution
4. "Reconstitution to resume normal operations."

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Revision ID: 5159
Revision Date: 12/09/2022