1.

BUILDING YOUR TEAM

Empower the Right Person
Instructions: Complete the following table below the names of you BCP team. Make sure the people identified have
sufficient scope and authority to make decisions and take action based on your plan.
2. RISK ASSESSMENT
Know Your Disaster Scenarios
Use this form to understand which hazards you’re exposed to. Follow these steps:
1. Review the common hazards below, and estimate the Impact and Likelihood values of each by encircling the appropriate numbers beside them.
2. Use the matrix at the bottom of the page to guide your Impact and Likelihood ratings. These values may vary per business.
3. Encircle the top priority hazard to plan for now, and take note of other high-scoring hazards you want to plan for later.
3. VULNERABILITIES
Know Where You are Most Susceptible
Use this form to understand the vulnerabilities of your business. Follow these steps:
1. List your key products and services.
2. For each, estimate the impact to your customers, your community, or your environment if it suddenly becomes unavailable.
3. For each product or service, estimate the impact to your own business if it suddenly becomes unavailable.
4. For each product or service, estimate the longest amount of time your business can tolerate their unavailability. This is your MTPD
(Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption), which is how soon the total disruption of your key business activities become unacceptable to
your company.
5. Mark the top products and services that have the highest external and internal impacts, as well as the shortest allowable recovery period.
This is your RTO (Recovery Time Objective), which is the quickest time to resume operations (not necessarily 100% operations)
6. From your top products and services, pick One Priority Activity, and breakdown the resources and business partners needed to continue
delivering the Priority Activity.
4. 1 RECOVERY PLAN (PART 1 OF 4)
Know Your Plans of Actions Before Disaster Events
Use this sheet to proactively protect your cooperative resources in the immediate (now), short (within one year) and
long term (more than one year). In the Summary Sheet, you will list your Plan entries under the Before (Protection and
Mitigation) column.
4. 3 RECOVERY PLAN (PART 3 OF 4)
Compute You Have Enough Financing to Recover
Complete the tables below from left to right.
1. Account for all the Available Funds (A).
2. Account for your Recovery Costs (B) based on the damage survey.
3. Account for all your Ordinary Expenditures (C) assuming your operations have resumed.
4. Subtract from your Available Funds (A) your total Recovery Costs (B) and Ordinary Expenditures (C).
4.4 RECOVERY PLAN (PART 4 OF 4)
Summarize Your Plans of Actions Before, During and After Disaster Events
Use this sheet to proactively protect your resources in the short, medium and long term. In this Summary sheet, you
will list your Plan entries under the Before (Protection and Mitigation) column.
5. EXERCISES
Know the Viability of Your Recovery Plan
Use this form to schedule the different types of drills and exercises to test and evaluate you plans. It’s especially
important to collate and address the problems and opportunities that came about during the exercises.