Business Continuity Planner Pro
Build a continuity plan that keeps residents safe and services running when something goes wrong. Built for housing providers that run seniors lodges and supportive living as well as apartments: rank your critical functions by how long they can be down, test each site's night-shift evacuation, transport, backup power, and supplies, map disruption scenarios to the functions they hit, name trained alternates, ready your communications, and log your exercises. The planner turns it all into readiness checks, a board report, and a presentation.
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The Pro planner is free until November 30, 2026. We ask for a few details the first time you use it on this device, so we know who the tool is helping.
1. Plan and settings
The evacuation assumptions drive the night-shift estimate for each seniors lodge and supportive living site. Set them from your own drills where you can.
Night-shift evacuation assumptions
Estimate = (independent × minutes + needs assistance × minutes + full assistance × minutes) ÷ staff on the night shift. Confirm targets with your fire safety plan and local fire department.
2. Sites and residents
One entry per building or site. Seniors lodges and supportive living get the full evacuation, transport, and supplies check. For apartments, record the residents who have registered as needing help to evacuate.
3. Critical functions (business impact analysis)
What must keep running, and how fast it must come back. Times are in hours: use 0.5 for 30 minutes, 24 for a day, 168 for a week. The recovery tier comes from the maximum tolerable downtime.
4. Disruption scenarios
Score each scenario for probability and impact from 1 to 5, tick the functions it would disrupt, and outline the response. If you use the Risk Management Planner Pro, enter the matching risk ID (for example, R-13) to link the two.
5. Emergency response procedures
Standard operating procedures for responding when a scenario happens. Each step sits in a phase and is assigned to a role from section 7, so it still works when the alternate is on shift. Steps can point to a ready message from section 8. Print a one-page action card for each procedure to post at the site, and use Run this procedure during a tabletop or a real event to keep a timed log.
Starter procedures are templates. Adapt every step to your site fire safety plans, your buildings, and the requirements of your funders, health authority, and local emergency management before you rely on them.
6. Dependencies and single points of failure
The vendors, systems, people, and utilities your critical functions rely on. A single point of failure is one with no ready substitute.
7. Response team and alternates
Every role needs a named alternate who has been trained, because a disruption rarely waits for the primary to be available. Enter roles or names only; keep phone numbers in your own secure systems.
8. Communication plan
Who hears from you, how fast, by what channel, and from whom. Draft each message now so it only needs the details filled in on the day. Square brackets mark the details to fill in.
9. Exercises and testing
Log every drill, tabletop, and real event. For evacuation drills, record the minutes it took; the planner compares the most recent drill at each site with your target.
10. Continuity readiness
Add at least one critical function in section 3 to see results here.
What the plan is saying
11. Recovery priorities
Each bar is how long restoring the function would take today. The gold mark is the recovery time objective and the dashed red line is the maximum tolerable downtime. A red bar is a recovery gap. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and weeks fit on one line.
12. Site evacuation and supply readiness
Evacuation estimates, transport, host sites, backup power, and supplies apply to seniors lodges and supportive living. The shortest of water, food, and medication supplies is shown.
13. Scenario coverage
Which functions each scenario would disrupt, coloured by recovery tier. Scenarios are ranked by score (probability × impact).
14. Readiness checks
On track meets good practice, Watch needs attention before the next review, and Action should be fixed now.
