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Please visit the National BCM Focal Point website at www.bcm.org.sg
Click here to download the National BCM brochure
LAUNCH OF THE NEW SAC ACCREDITATION SCHEME FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT (BCM) CERTIFICATION
Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity Management, BCM in short, is a holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organisation and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value creating activities.
Importance of BCM
BCM is more than just insurance for your business. A BCM ready organisation is able to:
Be recognised as a reliable and sustainable business partner
Enhance business reputation and consumer confidence
Protect assets and the business infrastructure
Maintain operations and minimise financial impact during crises
A BCM-ready private sector will help enhance Singapore's reputation as a Trusted Hub for reliable and quality service. Your preparedness for crises will collectively enhance the nation's resilience to crises.
The National Business Continuity Management (BCM) Programme aims to encourage early adoption of BCM by SMEs.
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) has been appointed as the Focal Point in this national initiative. In this capacity, SBF seeks to:
Raise the awareness of the importance of BCM to businesses
Widen BCM standard implementation by the business community
Make BCM more accessible to the business community
Support our enterprises' efforts to become BCM certified
Companies can seek support to help defray part of the cost of getting their organisations BCM ready.
National BCM Programme
Individual SMEs or SMEs which are part of a consortium can apply for support to help defray part of the cost* to become BCM ready and obtain SS540 certification. Coverage includes part of the:
Salary/training of staff involved in the BCM certification project
Cost of engaging 3rd party consultancy service to support the process of SS540 or equivalent certification
BCM certification cost
IT Hardware/software needed to implement BCM
Singapore Standard 540 (SS540)
Singapore Standard SS 540: 2008 is a BCM standard, which has been revised
from Technical Reference (TR) 19. The new Standard incorporates the "Plan-Do-Check-Act"
(PDCA) methodology, also used in ISO 9001.
SS540 is applicable to all organisations in all sectors. It allows potential gaps to be identified, and specifies the requirements for an organisation to build competence and readiness to respond to and recover from events which threaten to disrupt normal business operations. Diagram A provides an illustration of SS540 framework.
FAQs -
Click here to download the BCM FAQs
For more information on how your company can apply for support, please
contact us at bcm@sbf.org.sg
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