Business Continuity and Disaster Planning Workshop
09 April 2008
In preparation for the upcoming hurricane season, the Jefferson Parish Workforce Investment Board is holding a hurricane preparedness workshop - Business Continuity and Disaster Planning.
You will Learn How to
- Create, document and test continuity arrangements for your organization
- Perform a risk assessment and Business Impact Assessment to identify vulnerabilities
- Select and deploy an alternate site for continuity of mission-critical activities
- Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructure and processes
- Organize and manage recovery teams
- Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment
Course Benefit
In this course, you learn to identify vulnerabilities and implement appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate threats to your mission-critical processes. You learn techniques for creating a business continuity plan (BCP) and the methodology for building an infrastructure that supports its effective implementation.
Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for those managing and maintaining the continuity of an organization’s critical processes or capabilities.
Course Workshop
Throughout this course, you gain practical skills to design and develop a disaster recovery plan. Workshops include:- Assessing threats
- Avoiding disasters
- Identifying the impact on critical business functions
- Recognizing alternatives for continuing business functions
- Planning your continuity project
- Organizing team structures for use in an emergency
- Creating a recovery plan from the response to a disaster
This workshop gives practical advice on pre and post-disaster crisis communications and includes technology and business aspects of disaster planning. Speaker Ralph A. Petti, a certified master business continuity planner and president of RP Risk Advisors, LLC intend to lead an open discussion to answer questions specific to the concerns of your business. The 2008 Hurricane Season officially kicks off on June 1st. Now is the time to make preparations.
Eastbank Regional Library
4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie
Tuesday, May 27th
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Admission is free. Seating is limited, so register today.
Also, Jefferson Parish is participating in a six-parish collaboration on evacuation re-entry for businesses following a disaster such as a hurricane. The parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, Plaquemines and St. John, as well as the Louisiana State Police, have agreed to honor each other's plans and to use the same re-entry documents.
Businesses that do most of their work in Jefferson Parish should apply for their re-entry vehicle passes now at http://www.jumpstartjefferson.com/.
Business owners are reminded that applying for Re-Entry placards is only one part of being prepared. For information on Hurricane Preparedness for businesses, review JEDCO's Hurricane Checklist and 10 Steps to Prepare Your Business.
