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Why should my business become certified to BS 25999?

There are many reasons to become certified to the Business Continuity Management standard, BS 25999 and they all amount to the same thing - it gives you a competitive advantage.

Certification helps you to demonstrate to your stakeholders that your business is run effectively and that it will continue to do so in the event of a disruption.

The process of achieving and maintaining the Business Continuity Management (BCM) certification also helps ensure that you are continually improving and refining your BCM activities. The regular assessment process will also improve staff responsibility, commitment and motivation.

Certification improves overall performance, removes uncertainty and widens market opportunities. It will prove to your customers that you can be trusted to deliver. Certification to BS 25999 creates an opportunity to reduce the burdens of internal and external audits from your key customers.

Despite all these internal reasons, the reason for many companies will be that a major customer requires some evidence of competent BCM performance. 

If this is your reason then don’t panic; BCM isn’t as complicated or as difficult as you might think.  Also you don’t have to be an expert in any of the other management systems such as ISO 9001 (Quality management systems) or ISO 14001 (Environmental management systems) - the BCM system can be implemented alone.

However because it follows the simple Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle of other management systems if you are already a user of ISO 9001 and/or ISO 14001 then getting started with the BCM system will be very familiar to you.