Planning for Unexpected Risks & Business Disruptions

A crisis can arise unexpectedly. Therefore, business owners must plan accordingly to eliminate the impact of harmful business activity. Disruptions can be expensive and time-consuming. It is vital to have recovery strategies for your business. 

What is Business Continuity?

Business continuity is a proactive plan to avoid risks associated with a disruption of operations. Risk management steps help before, during, and after business activities to maintain the financial viability of an organization. Each level provides a course of action for recovery. 

The primary focus of a continuity plan is to prevent those events from occurring and diminishing their impact on day-to-day business processes. It provides current information that must contain proper procedures to protect the company.

Ways to Integrate Security into Business Continuity

Disruptions caused by unexpected crises can negatively affect your critical business operations — in both financial health and reputation— if they cannot quickly and efficiently alleviate the results. Many business owners underestimate the impact that reliable security can have on changing the outcome of a crisis.

Checking Your Safety Measures

Security measures may include cameras, keycards, intruder alarms, physical security, and IT security, depending on the different types of threats your company is likely to encounter. Your business security system must maintain efficiency to ensure those controls can continue to stand during a downtime scenario.

Vetting Employees and Clients

Fraud or theft by an employee, client, or vendor can be a critical discovery. As a requirement, vet all employees upon hire along with checking references. Credit check customers and suppliers are also helpful to see any potential issues.

Training Security Staff in Disaster Situations

A well-trained staff can act fast in an occurrence of a disaster or disruption. Prepared team can help with evacuations, emergency services, and coordinating a response. Along with preventing unauthorized visitors or inspect and report any suspicious packages.

Utilize your security team’s skills through staff training and incorporate them into the business continuity plan.

Designating a Recovery Team

Assign members of your security team to help immediately after a disaster. This team provides an efficient process and provides less time to recover. The first thing step is to review security footage and logs to collect information about the incident. 

Mainly for insurance and law enforcement purposes. It is essential to ensure that your entire team is familiar with your business security setup and procedures.

The Business Continuity Planning Process

After drafting a business continuity plan, it should undergo frequent testing to ensure that all programs run flawlessly within the system and experience final implementation.

During testing, have your safety team walk through each step of the plan and document the process. Then have your employees do the same to ensure they follow instructions. Exercise all the tasks regularly to make sure everyone is aware of their functions and the recovery time objective.

Learn More about Securing Your Business

Whether you purchase an alarm system from us or not, we will provide accurate information you can trust. We have been selling and supporting business alarms for over 50 years. We will provide steps on protecting your business by implementing your business continuity plan.

About Alarm Detection Systems, Inc.

Alarm Detection Systems is one of the largest alarm firms in the country. Family-owned since 1968, we provide business alarms, fire alarms, card access, security cameras, and home security systems. Proudly servicing Chicagoland, Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin in the Midwest. Call us at 630.844.6300 for more information.

In Colorado, we service all of Denver, Boulder County, Northern Colorado, the Eastern Plains, and Colorado Springs. Call us at 1.800.446.7519 for more information.