This contains a set of four presentations, which aim to raise the awareness level of your team with regard to business continuity planning. Based on NonVerba's industry recognised COPE Methodology, these presentations underline how effective Communication leading to an Organised response from People from Every part of your business can set in motion a successful Business Continuity Management programme within your organisation.

These presentations have been used internally by scores of companies to develop a culture on how to build a successful Business Continuity Management programme and response.

Our suggestion is that these tools can be used as is in a generic way or you can contact NonVerba if required and we will be happy to amend these files to specifically meet the needs of your organisation in an ad hoc way on an hourly rate.

This then gives you a flexible way of building on your cultural messages to meet the exact needs of your company in a very cost effective way.

This is now available for you to download and benefit from.

This is an Excel based tool to record all your activities, which could be potentially risky and then record the likelihood and impact of the risk. The tool automatically creates a colour coded list of all the activities based on whether urgent actions need to be taken or no actions are required.

It also allows you to record your proposed actions, responsibility assignments and target dates of completion. You can then record the status of these actions.

The Fire Risk Assessment toolkit is an Excel based template, which allows you to do a fire risk assessment of your properties in a very simple but effective way. There are relevant pre-populated questions with regard to fire risk, which have been developed in close collaboration with leading fire risk assessors over many years. However, you have the flexibility to add your own questions if required.

The sheet then allows you to record the assessor's responses to each question, any non-conformances observed and any recommendations for consideration. The tool also allows you to record corrective actions to be taken to remove non-conformances, responsibility assignments and target dates of completion. Finally, you can generate an action report at the click of a button.

This is a very powerful and useful tool to help keep your fire risk under control without the overhead of a complicated system.

This is a sophisticated but easy to use Excel based tool which consists of an input sheet which captures audit data from the various departments of your organisation and an output sheet which converts all the data collected into a report of the current audit status in your organisation.

The input sheet allows you to add any type of audit question, thus allowing you to use this for virtually any type of audit. The input sheet allows you to build various reports based on filters and provide pie charts on both audit and action status.

In short, this is a versatile tool to take care of all your audit needs.

If you do not wish to buy an expensive business continuity planning system then this may be the answer to help address your business continuity planning needs. This is a word-based template that helps you to build your business continuity plans easily and use it effectively when you require it. The format and text are self-explanatory and easily understood, thus reducing the requirement of learning how to create a plan ground up. This template has been developed over many years with inputs from significant number of companies.

Wallet guides can be a vital tool during an emergency. Ideally, a wallet guide should have enough and appropriate information to support you to do whatever you are required to do when an emergency strikes. They can be easily kept in your person for precisely this reason.

Here we provide you with a Word based template which you can use to build your wallet guide. All you need to do is to fill in the relevant information in the place holders within the template and your wallet guide is ready. If you so choose, you may also modify the template to suit your specific requirements.

During an incident it is essential to give clear communications to all. If you wish to alert your people about the event rapidly you may elect to hang posters on doors to provide basic actionable information. Your people will require this to respond effectively to the situation. A readymade red border poster similar to the one presented here helps you get started. You may use this as it is or modify it to suit your specific requirements.

This Health & Safety toolkit will enable you to develop a way of managing a corporate Health & Safety programme in a very cost effective way.

It is essential that you have effective tools to help you track potential hazards, near miss events etc and have an ability to report these events when they happen.

This Microsoft Excel toolkit will enable you to record Health & Safety events effectively, from an application stored locally on your laptop.

Once extensive data has been recorded, reporting mechanisms will enable you to report on these events to show upper management or regulatory bodies you are managing this process effectively when they request it.

As we have been working with Blue Chip organisations for many years we have managed to pick up many ideas along the way. We cannot however lay claim to these ideas. This swine flu example plan template was kindly donated to be shared with others by the global head of security for one of the world’s largest legal firms. We will not name people or companies to protect the innocent but we thank them for allowing us to share this with you. Please feel free to download this example swine flu example plan template to help you create your own plan template if required in a generic way. It contains all vital information that you may need during such an incident. However if you would like to make a significant change to this or tailor it to your company colours etc, we will be happy to support you in this effort on an ad hoc hourly rate. We hope this give you both a free and cost effective way of addressing this requirement.

As we have been working with Blue Chip organisations for many years we have managed to pick up many ideas along the way. We cannot however lay claim to these ideas. This swine flu example wallet guide was kindly donated to be shared with others by the global head of security for one of the world’s largest legal firms. We will not name people or companies to protect the innocent but we thank them for allowing us to share this with you. Please feel free to download this example pandemic wallet guide template (front and back covers) to help you create your own wallet guide if required in a generic way. It contains all vital information that you may need during such an incident. However if you would like to make a significant change to this or tailor it to your company colours etc, we will be happy to support you in this effort on an ad hoc hourly rate. We hope this give you both a free and cost effective way of addressing this requirement.

The Resilience Gap Assessment Tool has been prepared to help qualify your understanding of your Business Continuity Management programme currently in operation within your organisation. This PDF Q&A will give you the foundation of key questions to be assessed by all BCM team members to enable you gauge the current state of readiness in a manual way. The BCM Cloud system does also support a more sophisticated online, workflow system for your workgroup if this is of interest. All the information gathered will be strictly for the sole use of your company.

The Resilience Gap Assessment Tool has been prepared to help qualify our understanding of the Business Continuity Management programme currently in operation in your organisation. All the information gathered will be strictly for the sole use of NonVerba Ltd only. This information will not be shared with any other parties without the express written confirmation of your organisation.