Standards New Zealand is asking for public comments to be made about the draft Australian and New Zealand business continuity management standard,
AS/NZS 5050:2009 parts 1-3.

According to Standards New Zealand, key features of AS/NZS 5050:2009 Pts 1-3 are:

1. Provides the World's first national business continuity management standard based on ISO 31000 - the successor to AS/ NZS 4360-2004.

2. Builds upon the very successful HB-292 by incorporating latest thinking.

3. Delivers resilience.

4. Moves beyond other current business continuity management standards by:
- Contemplating a complete range of disruption risks.
- Integrating seamlessly into risk management frameworks that are based on AS/NZS 4360-2004 and the forthcoming AS/NZS/ISO 31000-2009.
- Enabling businesses to protect cross organisational functions and departmental structures.
- Building flexible capability thereby allowing organisations to accommodate change, as well as unforeseen events and consequences.
- Allowing organisations to seize opportunities.
- Enabling organisations to prepare, respond and adapt -in real time - to change and or disruptive events.
- Reflecting both precedent and the present organisational environment.

5. Integrates with existing management system standards including ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), ISO 28000 (Supply Chain Security Management System), and is thus efficiently implemented.

6. Integrates easily into existing assurance processes without imposing separate certification regimes or an additional compliance burden.

Constituent parts:

* DR09053, Part 1: Business continuity management system specification
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* DR09054, Business continuity management practice standard
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* DR09055, Part 3: Business continuity management audit and assurance standard
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•Date: 11th August 2009• Region: Australia/NZ •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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