Emerging Environmental Business Continuity Management Strategies: Beyond Business Survival and Compliance

Business owners and responsible managers are faced with a new trend of uncertainties as workplaces battles new challenges to business operation. Therefore, it is critical to integrate new approaches, that are in tangent with the new normal to identify and mitigate risks of exposure to business and workers and communicate them effectively to all stakeholders. The continuously changing and challenging operating environment has made Business Continuity Management (BCM) become an important aspect of the business to build organizational resilience and sustainability. A successful BCM programme includes the development and testing of well-defined and structured business continuity strategies and associated plans

The course will focus on the role that seamless integration of BCM and Occupational Health and Safety Standards and guidelines play in building resilient organizations. This virtual course will help delegates learn how to use a range of measures to explore, understand, and integrate effective and efficient strategies into the work environment to maintain optimal performance and safeguard the life of the business.  

Learning Objective

The objectives of this course are to provide delegates with an understanding to:

• Integrate Business Continuity Management into workplace operations
• Integrate effective and efficient strategies into work environment to maintain optimal performance
• Understand and implement hazard identification and risk assessment
• Understand the impact of business disruption on an organization and how long disruption should be tolerated
• Explain and understand the link and relationship between risk and BCM in order to build organizational resilience

Session Content

• Environmental Risks and BCM
• Nature-Based Solution
• Environmental and Social Safeguards
• Outline fundamental BCM principles and concepts
• Guidelines and Standards: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
• Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Control measures
• The Ergonomics of Workplace Safety
• Key role players for BCM roles and responsibilities
• Workplace Accident Investigation: Moving from Fault-finding to Fact-finding
• The BCM lifecycle
• Improving Health in the Workplace

Target Audience: HSE Managers and Officers, Safety and Health Committee Members and Representatives, members of information security management teams, IT managers, security and systems managers, information asset owners and employees with legal compliance responsibilities, and other personnel in an organization or individuals responsible for and interested BCM and HSE related duties.