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How Robust is Your Laboratory's Business Continuity Plan?
Posted by Cathy Wylie on
In late September a series of tornadoes hit the Ottawa area. In addition to the destruction caused by the storms, there were power outages and communication issues. If your laboratory was in an affected area, would your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) have stood up? A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or Disaster Recovery Plan is a document that is used when there is a disruption to the normal functioning of your laboratory. The plan gets implemented if there is an extended power outage, weather incident, flu epidemic or other event that closes your laboratory unexpectedly. Based on the events in Ottawa,...