A tailored diagnostic tool

EPCB has provided an Excel-based risk assessment tool for Continuity Central readers. This can be downloaded free of charge from the link which follows the introduction below.

Continuity Central invites any other readers with similarly useful tools to share them with others via this site. Email editor@continuitycentral.com if you have resources to offer.

Introduction

This approach to assessment is called various things – ‘gap’, ‘maturity’, and ‘capability’ are but a few of the buzz words. The aim of this tool is to simply map where you are against where you need to be.

This tool will enable you and your organization to identify areas of strength and weakness in processes, capabilities and skills. The results from carrying out the assessment will also help in planning and implementing process capability improvements and systematically focus on areas of weakness.

Format of the assessment

The relevant matters to take into account in considering the quality of management exercised centre around key performance tests about your state of knowledge and its application.

In particular, these tests are about

1. Assessing risk severity:
• To what extent can and ought you reasonably be able to foresee the extent of harm likely to be caused.
• How do you ensure that you exercise “sound” judgment around probability & consequence?

2. Maximizing intervention opportunities:
• To what extent can and ought you have control over the things which are likely to give rise to the harm likely to be caused.
• How do you consider the practical measures which can be taken to prevent, control, abate or mitigate the harm; how do you ensure that you exercise “sound” judgment around “cost effective” available capacity building options?

Sections to the questionnaire cover performance in the following areas which harmonize with the International Risk Management Standard:
1. Context
2. Assessment
3. Treatment

Full instructions on how to use the tool are included within it.

Download by clicking here

Please be aware that Continuity Central provides no warranty as to the fitness for use of the tool.

•Date: 27th February 2009• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: Risk
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