Description

The Business Continuity Management eLearning course provides learners with an understanding of business continuity and the importance of preparing for events that could disrupt normal organisational operations.

The course explores how organisations can identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, assess the impact of disruption and establish arrangements to maintain or restore critical activities. Learners will consider the importance of planning, clearly defined responsibilities, effective communication and reviewing business continuity arrangements to support organisational resilience and recovery.

Who Should Attend?

• Managers and supervisors.
• Business owners and senior personnel.
• Employees with business continuity or emergency planning responsibilities.
• Operations, facilities and administrative personnel.
• Employees responsible for critical business activities or services.
• Anyone requiring an understanding of business continuity management and organisational resilience.

What You Will Learn

• What is meant by business continuity management.
• The importance of preparing for potential business disruption.
• Common events and circumstances that can interrupt organisational activities.
• Identifying critical business functions, activities and resources.
• Understanding threats, vulnerabilities and potential impacts.
• Principles of business impact assessment.
• Identifying dependencies and areas of business vulnerability.
• Developing appropriate business continuity arrangements.
• Roles and responsibilities during a disruptive event.
• Establishing priorities for maintaining and restoring critical activities.
• The importance of effective internal and external communication.
• Responding appropriately when disruption occurs.
• Supporting recovery and the return to normal operations.
• Testing and exercising business continuity arrangements.
• Reviewing plans following exercises or actual incidents.
• The importance of keeping business continuity plans and information up to date.
• Contributing to organisational resilience and preparedness.

Course Delivery

This course is delivered as self-directed eLearning through the ELMO learning platform.

Learners can work through the course at their own pace and can move backwards and forwards through the learning content as required. The course does not need to be completed in one sitting, allowing learners to leave and return to their training where necessary.

Interactive activities may be included throughout the course to reinforce key learning points.

Assessment

Knowledge and understanding are checked through online assessment activities. Depending on the course content, these may include multiple-choice questions, matching exercises, drag-and-drop activities and image-based questions.

A minimum score of 70% is required to successfully complete the course.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course and assessment requirements, learners will receive a UK Rural Skills (UKRS) Accredited Certificate of Training.

Course Duration

The course is self-directed and learners can progress through the content at their own pace. Completion time may therefore vary depending on the individual learner.

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