Leveraging Workplace Safety Management Systems for Business Continuity Management

When a serious incident occurs in the workplace – on a scale big enough to strike a blow to the critical internal resources of a company – the true measure of business resilience will be the effectiveness of that company's work health and safety management system (WHSMS) working in conjunction with strong Business Continuity Management (BCM).

BCM is an approach that is distinct but complementary to the WHSMS of a business, because it focuses on critical and catastrophic risks to the business and to people. It is a focused risk management approach for the whole of a business to ensure that when a large incident (either internal or external) occurs that significantly impacts an organisation internally, critical business functions can be restored and/or maintained in a timely fashion.