HB 292-2006

IMPORTANT NOTE

HB 292 A practitioners Guide to Business Continuity management (this document) and HB 293 Executive Guide to Business Continuity Management, provide users with an integrated approach to Business Continuity Management. HB 292 is the substantive document, while HB 293, the Executive guide, provides both a summary of HB 292, but also acts as a navigational tool to the substantive document.

Both publications are available separately, but for most users it is recommended that they be purchased together as SET, at a significant discount on the combined price.

To see details of the Business Continuity SET, click here.

This Guide provides an overview of selected ‘generally accepted practices’ and emerging new practices used variously within Australasia, USA and UK. Business Continuity Management (BCM) practice is such that approaches that work well in one organisation may be wholly inappropriate for a different organisation. Extreme care therefore needs to be taken in deciding what and how aspects of BCM will be implemented within an organisation. The structure of the Guide is based on Standards Australia Business Continuity Management Handbook HB221:2004. Much of the information presented is fully consistent with HB221. However, the principles of HB221 have been significantly expanded upon and extensive new explanatory information is provided. This material is broadly consistent with the principles of other generally accepted practices such as NFPA1600 and the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2005, Spring TR19:2005; and the work of the DRII and DRJ.

First published as HB 292-2006.