The Policies, Processes and Activities Employed in Business Continuity

The University is committed to ensuring that it can deliver its mission of teaching and research throughout the incidents that may occur, from fire to flood, cyber-attack or other external events that could potentially impact delivery.

Resources to assist with business continuity preparation can be found in the links on this page. They include:

  • Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment (RA) templates
  • Business Continuity Plan (BCP) templates
  • Exercise Instruction templates
  • Examples of good practice
  • Training resources
  • Information about the University's own Business Continuity Network (BCN)
  • Links to the Higher Education Business Continuity Network (HEBCoN) of which the University is a member
  • Further reading

The University runs major incident exercises every year at the tactical and strategic level. Divisions, departments, faculties, libraries, museums and professional services are expected to run their own exercises in order to validate and improve their respective business continuity plans. 

 

Get in touch


For queries about Business Continuity and Major Incident Management 

Book an appointment: Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Clinic | Compliance (ox.ac.uk)

The Business Continuity Network (BCN) is a thriving, University-wide network for anyone with business continuity responsibilities. The BCN meets via Teams every first Wednesday of each month at 9.00am for 30 minutes for horizon scanning, lessons identified, sharing good practice and answering questions. Join us!

The Business Continuity Network.