Ready Business โ Business Continuity Checklist: 14 Items
Document essential business processes, alternative locations, suppliers, staff responsibilities, and recovery priorities.
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๐ก๏ธ Prepare Before an Emergency
Notes: Save your city or county emergency management contact and follow current instructions.
Save your city or county emergency management contact and follow current instructions.
Notes: Agree on a meeting point or short check-in message; keep contact information private.
Agree on a meeting point or short check-in message; keep contact information private.
Notes: Confirm safe water, medicines, and a charged radio or phone are accessible.
Confirm safe water, medicines, and a charged radio or phone are accessible.
Notes: Prioritize functions needed to keep people safe and the organization operating.
Prioritize functions needed to keep people safe and the organization operating.
Notes: Include staff, suppliers, utilities, facilities, and data systems.
Include staff, suppliers, utilities, facilities, and data systems.
Notes: Assign backups for unavailable leaders.
Assign backups for unavailable leaders.
Notes: Consider remote work, temporary facilities, and manual workarounds.
Consider remote work, temporary facilities, and manual workarounds.
โ ๏ธ Respond Safely When Needed
Notes: Document which functions can pause and which need continuity.
Document which functions can pause and which need continuity.
Notes: Keep offline contact methods available.
Keep offline contact methods available.
Notes: Apply data protection and permission controls.
Apply data protection and permission controls.
Notes: Record what fails and revise the plan.
Record what fails and revise the plan.
๐ Recover, Maintain & Review
Notes: Prioritize people before operations or property.
Prioritize people before operations or property.
Notes: Use approved messaging channels.
Use approved messaging channels.
Notes: Update procedures after a major organizational change.
Update procedures after a major organizational change.
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How to Use This Checklist
Document essential business processes, alternative locations, suppliers, staff responsibilities, and recovery priorities.
Follow current alerts and instructions from local officials. Hazards, climate, geography, access requirements, and household needs can change which actions are appropriate.
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This practical checklist is an independent, English-language adaptation of the Ready.gov preparedness topic. It does not reproduce FEMA publications and is not endorsed by FEMA or any U.S. government agency.
Use this checklist to organize preparations and recovery tasks. In an active emergency, follow the latest official instructions rather than relying on a static checklist.
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