Many companies treat Pandemic Planning as just another scenario in
normal business continuity plans. While the underlying planning methodology
may be the same, the structure and process flow of pandemic plans is
radically different.
Typical BCP's focus on recovering critical business processes through
relocation of staff and rebuilding of IT infrastructure using traditional team
leads and members from the impacted business units. In pandemic planning,
these objectives are replaced with the goal of keeping critical processes going
with a widely dispersed staff often with Human Resources and Legal as the
lead groups.
Life/Safety concerns in a typical BCP receive an immediate focus and are replaced
with recovery concerns in a short perod of time. Life/Safety remains a focus
throughout a pandemic response.
The recent H1N1 outbreak also revealed deficiencies in many plans by relying on the WHO
pandemic level as the trigger for implementation. Our
Pandemic Template activates based
on the WHO but also uses additional trigger criteria at the site level to control implementation
of plan components. This is a key component missing in nearly all pandemic plan templates
will avoid costly over reaction caused by relying solely on the WHO level.
How will employees work remote, when do you close a facility, how are displaced
employees compensated, what are your legal obligations and exposures, how do you
comply with government reguations, what do you tell your customers?
These are all critical components of Pandemic Plans.
Contact us if you are concerned
your pandemic plans are not healthy enough to meet you needs.