Your ISO 22301 Auditor

Your ISO 22301 Auditor … ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Certification is increasingly important for companies. It’s a standard for dealing with potential threats and means having the processes in place that allow you to continue doing business or get back up and running as soon as possible following a catastrophic event.

In today’s modern business world, threats came come from a variety of different directions. If you operate a distribution warehouse, for example, threats could include damage to the property through fire or flood. Continuity might be affected if you run a call centre and there’s a telecom outage. Continuity management can also be as simple as losing a link in your supply chain and having a process in place to quickly replace it so your business customers are not inconvenienced.

One of the biggest threats to businesses nowadays, of course, comes from cybersecurity and data breach issues. ISO 22301 will mean that your business not only recognises the various threats from this area but has the processes and solutions in place to deal with them should they occur.

To understand where your business continuity management stands, your ISO 22301 auditor will need to take a closer look at your current processes and highlight where these need to be improved.

The Benefits of an ISO 22301 Audit

All ISO certification begins with an audit. You won’t understand what you need to achieve until the auditor has taken a closer look at your business. Their report will form the basis for you to put processes and procedures in place that will benefit your business and give it a more robust response to potential continuity threats.

What Does an ISO 22301 Auditor Do?

Many businesses don’t understand the range of different potential threats they face. These dangers will vary from business to business and sector to sector. Your ISO 22301 auditor will need to be flexible in their approach and understand what your business is all about.

For example, if you have more than one location from which your business operates each area may have their own associated risks as well as shared ones. One building might be at a flood risk so processes will need to put in place there. Another location might have risks associated with a higher level of manual work and handling complicated machinery.

For every part of your business, the auditor will need to assess risk in relation to business continuity. But they will also look at what processes and resources you have in place to deal with a problem should it arise.

To do their job properly, your ISO 22301 auditor should ideally be as independent as possible. Once the audit has been carried out, the auditor will produce a report that outlines what your business currently has in place and what you need to do to achieve certification.

Finding an ISO 22301 Auditor

Undertaking an independent internal audit on your current business continuity is important and needs to be carried out at regular intervals even after certification has finally been achieved.

Working with a specialists like Perpetual Solutions means that you get complete peace of mind that all aspects of your business continuity process have been covered and addressed in great detail.

If you would like to find out how we can help, contact us today on enquiries@pslinfo.co.uk

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