What is the Business Continuity Plan and is it different from a Recovery Plan?
• RECOVERY: This refers to your department’s activities to return to your pre-emergency condition both physically and financially. This includes identifying missing or injured persons; securing the site to prevent additional damage, loss of property, or injury; assessing and identifying damages; working with the Office of Risk Management on pre-authorization before incurring continuity and recovery expenses; recording and reporting damages, recovery, and continuity costs; repairing or replacing damaged items; and filing a claim through the Office of Risk Management. • CONTINUITY: This refers to the resumption of critical functions. To resume operations that must continue when your normal place of business is not available, you must make decisions before an emergency has occurred, such as the possible location of an alternate operation site or how a temporary location will be selected; how to provide computer, telephone, and other services; and what other resources are required in order
