Business Continuity Planning

The Business Development Bank (BDC) offers all businesses a detailed business continuity plan to help them prepare for an emergency, including a flu pandemic.

Summary

Many small and privately held companies do not have a business continuity plan, making them vulnerable to the threats of natural disasters, industrial accidents and hazards, hostile acts or loss of critical resources. BDC's free online guide is designed to help small businesses minimize the risk that such crisis pose to the health and safety of employees and the continuity of business.

BDC's user-friendly guide provides small business owners with the information and tools they need to put together an 8-step continuity plan that will lessen the potential negative effects of an emergency situation:

1. Establish an emergency preparedness team
2. Identify essential services and functions
3. Identify required skill sets and staff reallocation
4. Identify potential issues
5. Prepare a plan for each essential service and function
6. Compare with Capital Health's "Preparedness Checklist"
7. Review the plan with the team
8. Revise, test and update the plan

The guide offers entrepreneurs useful information, tools, templates, checklists and links to additional resources.

New Brunswick Contact(s):
See National Contact.

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National Contact(s):
Head Office
Business Development Bank of Canada
Suite 400
5 Place Ville Marie
Montréal, Quebec  H3B 5E7
Fax: 1-877-329-9232
Toll-free (information): 1-877-BDC-BANX (1-877-232-2269)
E-mail: info@bdc.ca
Web site: http://www.bdc.ca/en/home.htm