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Compliance Management

March 6th, 2010

Compliance is an outcome of an organization meeting its obligations. Policies and procedures to achieve compliance must be integrated into all aspects of how the organization operates. Compliance should not be seen as a standalone activity, but should be aligned with the organization’s overall strategic objectives. An effective compliance program will support these objectives.

While maintaining independence, compliance should be integrated with the organization’s financial, risk, quality, environmental and health and safety management systems and its operational requirements and procedures.

Compliance programs should be shaped by an organization’s core values and generally accepted corporate governance, ethical and community standards.

An effective organization-wide compliance program results in being able to demonstrate its commitment to compliance with relevant laws, including legislative requirements, industry codes, organizational standards as well as standards of good corporate governance, ethics and community expectations.

Based on AS3806 (Compliance Processes), AS4360 (Risk) and ISO9001 (Quality), OpsCentre provides a number of compliance management services, including:

• Health checks and reviews of existing compliance systems
• Facilitation of development of compliance programs
• Identification of an organization’s compliance obligations: legal, regulatory and organizational.
• Assisting with documentation of necessary compliance processes and procedures
• Facilitation of development of compliance programs
• Compliance training and awareness programs
• Facilitation of executive compliance management

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Business Continuity – Is your business ‘Recovery Ready’?

March 3rd, 2010

Do you know the answers to these questions for your organisation?

1. How would we continue to function in an extended building evacuation such as a power outage or flood in the basement?

2. Who are our most critical customers and how would we contact them?

3. What is our current IT Disaster Recovery capability? How long would it take to restore our most critical systems, applications and data?

4. Do we outsource critical business functions to third party organisations services? What if they were to fail.

5. Do our staff know how to get out of our building safely, where to go, and how do we account for them?

6. In the event of a disaster, would we need to implement manual workarounds to cater for reduced staff numbers, loss of IT systems, or denial of access to our building?

OpsCentre recommends undertaking a Readiness Assessment to identify where you are exposed and the possible impacts.  If you would like assistance with evaluating the health of your business continuity program, we would be happy to assist. Don’t forget we are offering a complimentary initial consultation from which you will receive an ‘actionable’ health check report.

Click here for more information about the OpsCentre complimentary consultation.

 

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Recommended considerations for selecting an Alternate Recovery Site

February 26th, 2010

Do you need to select an alternate recovery site for your business continuity or IT disaster recovery?

In the event of a disaster, it is crucial that your organisation can transition as smoothly as possible into a recovery site and commence working on critical business processes as quickly as possible.  Ensuring that an appropriate alternate recovery site has been selected is key to this smooth transition.

OpsCentre has released a succinct 2 page guide to considerations for selecting the right recovery site.

The report covers aspect such as:

  1. Location of the recovery site
  2. A list of must-have pre-requisites that every recovery site should have
  3. Site Security
  4. Technical Infrastructure considerations
  5. Other site characteristics to be considered

Go HERE to request your copy of the COMPLIMENTARY, OBLIGATION-FREE Alternate Site Selection Report.

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