Emergency Response & Business Resilience Auditing

Service summary

An assessment of existing arrangements for responding to significant operational emergencies. The audit examines scenario coverage, responsibilities and coordination between emergency response and recovery activities.

Findings help management understand preparedness strengths and unresolved weaknesses. The service assesses existing capabilities and evidence; it does not guarantee response performance or design emergency arrangements for the organisation.

Key objectives

• Assess relevant emergency scenario coverage
• Examine response roles and communication
• Evaluate exercise and resource evidence
• Identify coordination and learning gaps

Methodology

Selected emergency scenarios are used to evaluate documented arrangements, available resources and existing exercise or incident evidence.

• Agree scenarios, locations, interfaces and preparedness criteria.
• Review emergency plans, resource lists and escalation arrangements.
• Select response roles and dependency interfaces for examination.
• Interview personnel and inspect relevant readiness records.
• Evaluate drills, exercises and documented lessons from actual events.
• Compare assumed capabilities with available resources and communication evidence.
• Report preparedness findings and untested or unsupported assumptions.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• Emergency preparedness assessment
• Role and interface findings
• Exercise and resource evidence gaps
• Documented response-readiness limitations