Planning for disasters will help to protect and prepare your business. Use the Business Continuity Plan template to get started. It has four parts:

• Part 1 - Know your disaster risk will help you to assess the risks to your business
• Part 2 - Get ready will help you to prepare your business and staff for disasters
• Part 3 - Take action will help you to know what to do during a disaster
• Part 4 - Reassess, recover and learn will help you to track your recovery after a disaster

Each part of the Business Continuity Plan is available as a stand-alone template. You can complete the whole plan as one document or complete each part separately.

During a disaster, time is of the essence. Your Business Continuity Plan can help you respond quickly and have strategies in place to reduce the impacts of a disaster.  The Business Continuity Plan can also help minimise disruptions to your operations and guide your business recovery.

Tools and checklists

• Business Continuity Plan template
• Know your disaster risk
  • Business Continuity Plan Part 1 - Know your disaster risk
  • Assessing disaster risk fact sheet
  • Insurance fact sheet
• Get ready
  • Business Continuity Plan Part 2 - Get ready template
  • Bushfire preparation checklist
  • Flood preparation checklist
  • Storm preparation checklist
  • Earthquake preparation checklist
  • Heatwave preparation checklist
  • Pandemic influenza preparation checklist
  • Tourism operators preparation checklist
• Take action
  • Business Continuity Plan Part 3 - Take action template
• Reassess, recover & learn
  • Business Continuity Plan Part 4 - Reassess, recover & learn template
  • Recovery services contact list