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What is BS EN ISO 22361 - Crisis management about?
Crises present organizations with complex challenges and, possibly, opportunities that can have profound and far-reaching consequences. BS EN ISO 22361:2022 is a crisis management guide to help organizations establish and continually improve their crisis response capability.
Who is BS EN ISO 22361 - Crisis management for?
- Compliance officers
- Resilience managers
- Continuity and crisis managers
- Business continuity managers
- Cyber managers
- Human resources
- Resilience officers and those responsible for organizational resilience
- CFOs, CEOs, board chairs
- Risk managers, analysts and officers
- Risk operations managers
- Security officers
- Facility managers
- Those responsible for organizational governance
What does BS EN ISO 22361 - Crisis management cover?
It provides guidance on crisis management to help organizations plan, establish, maintain, review and continually improve a strategic crisis management capability.
BS EN ISO 22361 can help any organization to identify and manage a crisis. Elements for consideration include:
- Context, core concepts, principles and challenges
- Developing an organization’s crisis management capability
- Crisis leadership
- The decision-making challenges and complexities facing a crisis team in action
- Crisis communication
- Training, validation and learning from crises
NOTE: BS EN ISO 22361 acknowledges the relationship and interdependencies with various disciplines but is distinct from these topics.
Why should you use BS EN ISO 22361 - Crisis management?
Reflecting the consensus understanding of businesses and academics on how the subject of “crisis” has evolved over the last decade, BS EN ISO 22361 provides organizations with modern good practice on how to prepare for, respond to and recover from a crisis. It can help users to:
- Maintain an up-to-date crisis management plan that offers protection and limits damage
- Harmonize many existing management processes and systems to save management time and to improve investment decisions
- Support crisis management across and between organizations by establishing agreed terms and definitions
- Interconnect and recognize relationships between subjects such as cyber, sustainability, supply chain, culture, workforce, etc – as well as key standards such as Organizational Resilience, Risk Management, Emerging Risks, Business Continuity Management, and Governance to support responsible and good business practices
- Strengthen risk management, increase stakeholder confidence and grow sustainably
