Part 1: RAR - List of Threats v2
Business Continuity Management
This is a list of possible threats to an organization. From this list, the Organization BCM Coordinator together with the BC Team is required to identify and extract the likely and high-impact threats that will affect your organization. Sometimes, this list of threats may be re-organized into Four primary scenarios of internal and external threats: Denial of Access, Unavailability of People, Disruption of Supply Chain, and Equipment and IT-related Disruption.
Crisis Management and Crisis Communication
This list of threats is applicable to both crisis management and crisis communication. It forms the first two set of the 7 sets of the crisis scenarios. The rationale is that when it comes to crisis management or crisis communication, the senior management team will regard threats that result in a disaster and crisis scenario that becomes crisis as one "bad event".
Contents
Denial of Access
Denial of Access includes all threats that will result in the denial of access/availability to people, processes, infrastructure, and partners/suppliers. This could range from a flood keeping you from entering the office premises to a power outage disrupting work. Below is the full list of possible Denial of Access threats:
- Blizzard
- Clouds
- Cyclone
- Drought
- Duststorm
- Flood
- Flash Flood
- Fog/ Haze
- Heat Wave
- Hurricane
- Lightning
- Rain
- Snow
- Thunder
- Tornado
- Tropical storm
- Typhoon
- Weather front
- Water Spout
- Wind
- Wind Storm
- Fire Storm
- Fire - Wild, Rural or Urban
- Terrorism
- Bomb Threat/Explosion
- Power Outage
- Earthquake Tremors
- Labour Dispute/ Strike
- Infectious Disease/ Pandemic
- Workplace Safety
- Workplace Violence
- Loss of Key Appointment Holders
- Mishandling of Hazardous Materials
- Haze
Disruption of Supply Chain
- Loss of Specialized Vendor/ Partner/ Supplier
- Regulatory or Legal Violation
- Default of Key Debtors
- Accidents (i.e. Aviation, Rail, Maritime, Vehicular)
- IT Failure (i.e. Hardware, Software)
- Network Failure (i.e. Local and Wide Network)"
- IT Sabotage
- Telecommunications Failure (phone line)
- Facilities and Equipment Failure (i.e. Air-con, Lift, Transformer, HVAC, UPS, Backup Generator)
