ISO Standards news (ISO22301)

I am very pleased to say that ISO 22301 has been approved and will now proceed to publication as anticipated.  This is excellent news and we now have an International Standard for business continuity for the very first time.

This is a requirements standard and we anticipate that the audit bodies will already be preparing for its implementation and will soon offer accredited certification against the standard.  Those already certified to BS 25999-2 will have an opportunity to transition to the new standard but the details of this have still to be formally worked out.

ISO 22313 which provides guidance to ISO 22301 is currently at DIS stage and available for comments on the BSI web site or through your national standards body if outside the UK.

Our ISO 22301 training course is available!

Business continuity training, ISO 22301 and competence

Oprel are pleased to announce the launch of our training courses which can be provided as bespoke in-house courses or you can attend the public courses.  We are offering a course on implementing ISO 22301 taking you through all of the steps needed to implement this new standard, due for publication later in 2012.

Our larger offering is a new set of courses, organized as 10 modules and with study in between these modules where you can study in greater depth and apply what you have learned.  These courses take you through the basics of business continuity and then through the entire lifecycle, combining study with practical exercises.

We are trying to offer a different form of training to our attendees.  The training is not just in the class but is supported by mentoring and information sharing between modules.  Our aim is to impart knowledge and capability, you should emerge as a competent business continuity practitioner.  Too many courses are designed to cram information and then to take an exam for qualifications, but here we are aiming to produce competent people over a longer period with more in-depth support.

If this sounds interesting to you, please contact us.

Resilience Training

Oprel are to launch a course on Resilience, defining terminology, an approach and how it differs from related disciplines.  More news when we have dates and a venue.

Oprel training

Oprel will soon be offering a suite of public training to compliment our consultancy and in-house training. More soon.