Domain 1 – Risk, Planning & Leadership

1. Has your business identified and prioritized the hazards and disruptions most likely to affect its operations?

2. Has your business taken practical measures to reduce the likelihood or severity of physical damage and disruption?

3. Does your business have a written Business Continuity Plan?

4. Has your business identified its critical products, services and activities and how long each can be interrupted before the impact becomes serious?

5. For each critical activity, has your business compared the maximum downtime it can tolerate with how quickly it can realistically restore that activity?

6. Are decision-making authority, emergency responsibilities and backup leadership arrangements clearly assigned?

Domain 2 – People, Warning & Communications

7. Does your business maintain current emergency contact information and a process for notifying and accounting for employees?

8. Do employees receive guidance or training on what to do before, during and after a disruption?

9. Are backup personnel available and prepared to perform critical duties if key people are unavailable?

10. Does your business monitor trusted official warnings and have clear triggers for taking protective or continuity actions?

11. Does your business have a plan for communicating with employees, customers, suppliers and other key stakeholders during a disruption?

12. Has your business planned how it will support employees during and immediately after a disruption?

Domain 3 – Operations, Supply Chain & Infrastructure

13. Has your business identified the people, suppliers, customers, contracts, systems, equipment, locations, distribution channels and services whose loss would stop or seriously disrupt operations?

14. Does your business have alternative suppliers for critical goods and services that are genuinely independent of the same disruption?

15. Could your business continue operating if its usual premises became inaccessible or unusable?

16. Does your business have workable alternatives for essential utilities and services such as electricity, water, fuel, internet, telecommunications, transport or payment processing?

17. Has your business identified and protected the critical inventory, stock, equipment or materials needed to continue or restart operations?

18. Has your business defined the minimum level at which it could operate during disruption and the order in which activities should be restored?