This range of publications and links is designed to aid businesses in continuity planning. See also the Terrorism page and the Fire Safety page.

Arson Prevention Bureau
Guidance on controlling or preventing arson in homes, schools, industrial and commercial premises, farms, and places of worship.

DTI - Achieving best practice in your business
A toolkit of practical business advice, with guides, case studies, fact sheets and online, self-assessment tools. Topics include: management, operations, sales and marketing, people, design and innovation, and communications and IT.

MI5 Security Advice
- The Importance of Security Planning
- Protecting your assets
- Bomb protection
- Good Security Practice: Top 10 Guidelines

British Bankers' Association

Flood preparation guide for business
Valuable information from the Environment Agency on developing your own flood plan and how to be better prepared in the event of a flood.

Business Continuity Planning Guidance on London Prepared
User-friendly checklists, templates and guidance for businesses with up to 10 staff, 10-50 staff and 50-250 staff, plus a 10-minute assessment of business resilience

Security Service
Security advice on preparations and precautions you can take to protect your business, current threats, and how you can help

OGC's Successful Delivery Toolkit
The Toolkit describes proven good practice for procurement, programmes, projects, risk and service management. It brings together policy and best practice in a single point of reference. It helps you to ask the critical questions about capability and project delivery, and it gives practical advice on how to improve.

OGC - Risk Management

Communicating Risk: a Toolkit

DTI Information for Business

Small Business Service

England: Business Link

Scotland: Business Gateway

Wales: Business Connect

Northern Ireland: InvestNI

Should businesses purchase their own equipment to detect chemical, biological or radiological materials as part of their counter-terrorism contingency plans?
(On the Home Office's Terrorism website - FAQ page)

HSE - RIDDOR 95 - Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

Continuity Central

Berkshire Regional Continuity Forum

Dealing with Disaster (Revised 3rd edition)
Information on agencies and procedures involved in emergency and crisis management

Disaster recovery: Business Tips for survival from the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (.pdf 212kb)

Expecting the Unexpected - Business Continuity in an Uncertain World (on London Prepared) (.pdf 522kb)

Business Link

Business Resilience Advice (on London Prepared)
From Thames Water and the London Electricity Distribution Network

How resilient is your business to disaster?
Developing recovery plans by assessing the current position, planning against risks, developing communication strategies, dealing with the aftermath, and working with the emergency services.

Why exercise your disaster response?
For chief executives, businesses managers and local government officers, a outline on how to test contingency plans against risks and hazards.

Exercise Planners Guide
Guidance to those who have to design and carry out emergency exercises. Experienced emergency planning officers and safety officers may wish to use it as a check list.

Recovery: an emergency management guide
(.pdf, 120kB)

Business as usual: maximising business resilience to terrorist bombings
(.pdf file, 234kB)

Standards for Civil Protection in England and Wales
(.pdf, 73 kB)