Preparing Scotland: business resilience guidance

Footnotes

1 Resilience is defined as 'the capacity of an individual, community or system to adapt in order to sustain an acceptable level of function, structure and identity'. Preparing Scotland: Scottish Guidance on Resilience http://www.readyscotland.org/ready-government/preparing-scotland/

2 The emergency services, local authorities, NHS Boards, SEPA, see Preparing Scotland: Scottish Guidance on Resilience

3 Preparing Scotland: Scottish Guidance on Resilience

4 The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 see http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/contents and Preparing Scotland: Scottish Guidance on Resilience

5 See Preparing Scotland: Building Community Resilience guidance http://www.readyscotland.org/ready-government/preparing-scotland/

6 Other specialist areas of activity which may be able to contribute to developing resilience internally are listed in section 2

7 See Preparing Scotland: Recovering from Emergencies in Scotland http://www.readyscotland.org/ready-government/preparing-scotland/

8 See Preparing Scotland: Building Community Resilience

9 See ISO 22301:2012 Societal security - Business Continuity Management systems - Requirements at http://www.bsigroup.com/

10 These are codified more formally in ISO 22301 and formerly in BS 25999

11 See ISO 31000 'Risk management - Code of practice' ISO 31000 http://shop.bsigroup.com/

12 Civil Contingencies Act 2(1)(c)

13 Preparing Scotland: Scottish Guidance on Resilience

14 See A Structured Approach to Enterprise Risk Management ( ERM) and the Requirements of ISO 31000, at http://theirm.org/ISO31000guide.htm

15 PAS 200:2011, Crisis Management http://shop.bsigroup.com/en/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030252035

16 See section 2

17 Preparing Scotland: Scottish Exercise Guidance http://www.readyscotland.org/

18 A Structured Approach to Enterprise Risk Management ( ERM) and the Requirements of ISO 31000, at http://theirm.org/ISO31000guide.htm

19 Civil Contingencies Act 4(1)

20 See Annex 3

21 See Businesses in Scotland Key Facts: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Business/Corporate/KeyFacts

22 Civil Contingencies Act (2004) 2 (1) (c)-(d)

23 Civil Contingencies Act 1(1)-(5)

24 See National Risk Register https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-for-civil-emergencies-2013-edition

25 See section 2(1)(c)-(d) and 4(1) of the Act and Part 7 of the Regulations

26 These are set out in of Part 7 of the Regulations and arise from section 4(1) of the Act, Where they are referred to as to as 'relevant responders'.