What is ISO/TS 22393 about?
ISO/TS 22393 gives guidance on how to develop recovery plans and renewal strategies from a major emergency, disaster, or crisis (such as the COVID-19 pandemic). ISO/TS 22393 provides guidelines on identifying the short-term, transactional activities needed to reflect and learn, reviewing the preparedness of parts of the system impacted by the crisis, and reinstating operations to build preparedness. ISO/TS 22393 also distinguishes a longer-term perspective of recovery, called “renewal”.
In describing renewal, ISO/TS 22393 provides guidelines on how to identify visionary initiatives to address the strategic impacts and opportunities that have been exposed by the crisis and need to be addressed through transformational, ambitious initiatives. Recovery plans enhance preparedness following a crisis and renewal strategies enhance resilience. The guidelines cover how there is a need to identify scalable activity on people, places, processes, power, and partners in both recovery and renewal.
Who is ISO/TS 22393 for?
ISO/TS 22393 on security and community resilience guidelines are useful for but is not limited to:
- Commercial and industrial corporations, enterprises and organizations
- Charitable and not-for-profit organizations
- National and municipal administrators and planners
- Governmental organizations
- Non-governmental organizations
- UN agencies and funding programmes
- Educational organizations
- Chambers of commerce
- Business advisory councils
- Emergency management
Why should you use ISO/TS 22393?
The invasive and often far-reaching impacts of major emergencies, disasters and crises (such as pandemics like COVID-19) can bring the need for short-term recovery and ambitious renewal of communities. Such events disrupt normal conditions, expose system fragilities and have impacts that can cause widespread suffering.
ISO/TS 22393 provides you with a framework to assess the impacts of major emergencies, disasters and crises on communities, and address these by planning transactional recovery activities and strategizing transformational renewal initiatives.
Uniquely, ISO/TS 22393 provides guidance on how to identify the short-term transactional activities needed to make a system resilient again, as well as guidance on how to identify long-term activities to address the strategic impacts and opportunities exposed by the crisis. Some other reasons to use this standard are:
- ISO/TS 22393 is based on actual experiences gathered via dozens of interviews and discussions with experts and global stakeholders
- ISO/TS 22393 is freely available via ISO and BSI to encourage readership
- ISO/TS 22393 complements PD ISO/PAS 45005
- ISO/TS 22393 can help improve efficiency and strengthen risk management
- ISO/TS 22393 can help demonstrate an organization’s resilience to its stakeholders, which in turn can support trade and entering new markets
