Business Continuity

Business Continuity Management is concerned with improving the resilience of the University of Lincoln.

This means developing its ability to detect, prevent, minimise and where necessary deal with the impact of disruptive events.

In the aftermath of an incident it will enable the critical activities of the University to continue and in the longer term it will help the University to recover and return to ‘business as usual’ as soon as possible.

The University of Lincoln aims to develop, implement and resource a Business Continuity Management Programme that will enable it to respond to and manage any disruptions that occur.

Each department and school within the University has it’s own Business Continuity Plan developed with Planning and Business Intelligence.

For guidance how to complete the BC Plan, please see the ‘Business Continuity Plan Workbook and guidance‘ document to the right, in the ‘User Guides’ section.

For ‘what to do in the event of…’ click here

For Incident Management information please click here.

All Business Continuity Plans and documents on this site are backed up via this link to the Office 365 site

Creating Your Business Continuity Plan

BC Plans can be accessed by selecting the relevant button on the right hand side of this page. Further instructions will appear on-screen as you work through the steps.

FAQs

What is Business Continuity Management?

Business Continuity Management is an on-going process to help the University to detect, prevent, minimise and where necessary deal with the impact of incidents or disruptive events. It aims to ensure the University can continue as normal when there is an incident – or that at least the most important things do. This involves identifying what the University does that is critical and then planning for how these activities could continue if there was an incident. It means having a "plan B', but making sure that it is documented, that people are aware of it and that these arrangements are regularly updated to ensure they work. There are some events and circumstances which we can have no control.

What is a critical activity for the University?

Business Continuity focuses on the activities that are considered to be the most important and would have the greatest impact if they were not performed or were disrupted and aims to ensure that the most critical business functions of an organisation can continue to be performed and available to end-users. The impact on other areas outside your department of any disruption to normal business activities is key to understanding how Business Continuity works.

How will it affect me?

It is important that all staff are aware of arrangements in their department that may affect them – they need to be informed about arrangements in the business continuity plan that affect them such as where to go if their usual workplace is inaccessible. Plans need to be in place to ensure as much thought has been given to ‘what if…’ Otherwise when a critical function is disrupted how will colleagues be able to function properly?

BC Menu

BC Plans (Step 4) For use

Professional Services and School BC Plans (Downloadable PDFs)

Update February 2025.

A new online system is presently being rolled out to all areas. Until this work is completed, for copies of BC Plans, contact Kevin Pasco at businesscontinuity@lincoln.ac.uk.

BC Plans Online system (legacy system)

to edit the BC plan, select this link and remember to ‘check in/out ‘ the document.

any issues please contact businesscontinuity@lincoln.ac.uk

BC User Guides

Business Continuity Plan Workbook and Guidance

Checking Out Documents

How to Approve a Document

BC Rolling Progress Schedule

Details of regular BC plan updates and exercise dates

BC Policy & Strategy

Business Continuity Policy- June 2023

Business Continuity Strategy– June 2023

Any Questions?

Please contact Kevin Pasco for queries and assistance regarding the site. Best contact method is via Teams