ISO 22301:2012

The Business Continuity Management System is explained in the ISO 22301 standard as “a holistic management process that defines potential threats to an organization and the effects of these threats on business operations in the event of their occurrence, and that forms the main framework for building an institutional resilience that will have an intervention capacity to protect the interests, reputation, brand and value creation activities of the organization’s main stakeholders.” The main purpose of this system is to create the intervention capacity that the business will need in the face of an extraordinary situation. The ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management System covers employees, business processes and all technology systems, including information technologies (IT).

One of the processes that institutions must manage effectively is business continuity. Business continuity is defined as “the capacity of an organization to maintain its products and services at a predefined acceptable level after an interruption event.” In other words, it is the totality of activities that will enable all businesses, large or small, to respond to interruptions that disrupt their business. If unexpected business interruptions are not your thing, the best thing you can do is to implement the ISO 22301 Social Security and Business Continuity Management System Standard.

ISO 22301 Societal Security and Business Continuity Management System Standard is a standard approved by approximately 160 countries and is an advanced application of the previously published BS 25999 Business Continuity Standard, issued as an ISO standard.

The ISO 22301 Standard specifies requirements for organizations to develop a documented management system to establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain, protect and prepare to mitigate risks and recover from catastrophic events in order to ensure business continuity.

ISO 22301 Social Security and Business Continuity Management System Standard is a general standard for organizations in different sectors, and can be applied partially to the whole organization or a certain part of the organization, regardless of the sector or the number of employees.

What are the Benefits of ISO 22301 Social Security and Business Continuity Management System?

• It helps identify current and future threats to the business and manage them correctly.
• Minimizes the impact of events.
• It ensures that critical functions always operate in times of crisis.
• It provides advantage in today’s competitive environment by proving its ability to ensure continuity.
• The needs of suppliers, customers, shareholders and employees are met through risk assessment.
• It reduces downtime and improves recovery time in the face of incidents.
• The organization and other organizations, public institutions, local authorities with whom it has relations are recognized and an appropriately developed, documented and understood emergency service is provided.
• Protects the organization’s reputation, brands and reputation.
• The organization’s supply chain becomes secure.