Questions 1: How well are people involved in your resilience planning?

Question 2: Have you established which elements are crucial to your business?

Question 3: Have you established an order of priority in case something goes wrong?

Question 4: Can your business identifity hazards and mitigation measures that your business has already put in place?

Question 5: Our business understands that for a business to get the most out of a business resilience plan, active testing and conducting drills are required.

Question 6: Our business has made plans that include local communities by discussing what support can be provided during and after a community wide emergency.

Question 7: Once an emergency is identified, our business can immediately deviate itself away from routine and into emergency mode.

Question 8: To maintain a high level of readiness for emergencies, we invest in the appropriate level of resources.

Question 9: Does your business continuity plan include what your current insurances cover, policy exclusions, documents and contact details?

Question 10: Has your business considered what effects an emergency within your business might have on its stakeholders?

Question 11: Does your business know the minimally required resources needed to function as a business- such as the number of sales required to break even, critical assets and functions, essential personnel for a skeleton crew, etc?

Question 12: Does your business think of scenarios where it may be necessary to adapt to a new long-term environment? For example, Uber disrupting the taxi industry. (Post-natural disasters usually do not change the business environment, only things like innovation disruptions, consumer tastes and regulations)

Question 13: Your managers are proactive in identifying issues within your business and their input is taken into consideration for your business continuity plan.

Question 14: Your business culture promotes employees to work well with each other.

Question 15: Your business can identify employees that have gone the extra mile in their work and provide them with the opportunities to develop themselves.

Question 16: Employees in your business are encouraged to think creatively when they face issues.

Question 17: Your employees are not restricted to whom they work with to get the job done.