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    Mar 28, 2024  
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EMERG 225 - Emergency Business Continuity Advanced



4.0 Credits
Provides a more in-depth analysis of the business continuity management planning process, including topics such as crisis management and leadership, crisis teams, incident management planning and management sequencing, plan implementation, and risk mitigation through contingency planning.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of crisis management, incident management, risk management, and key concepts of business continuity management planning.
  2. Analyze and explain the structure of the business continuity management plan, including the layers and levels, the risk management process, resourcing, policy-making, reporting and recordkeeping, and how to implement a plan.
  3. Identify and differentiate the components of emergency response procedures and guidelines within the incident management plan, including establishing response trigger points, defining when a problem becomes a crisis, and knowing when to activate the communications plan.
  4. Identify and analyze command and control requirements of the incident management plan including incident management sequencing from initial incident response to full recovery.
  5. Explain business continuity and crisis management procedures, including crisis leadership, composition of crisis response teams, and incident management structure.
  6. Design a proactive crisis communications program that manages crisis events through a crisis control center, and develop and facilitate exercises for crisis communications plans.
  7. Evaluate how the nature, scope, and probability of a variety of risks can impact businesses and other organizations, including how to avoid or mitigate those risks through contingency planning.
  8. Analyze applicable laws and regulations governing emergency management, and the agencies that support business continuity aims.



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