Build the essential foundations of a Business Continuity Management System with 45 professionally structured BCMS resources.

The Verivexa™ ISO 22301 Essentials Toolkit provides a focused collection of editable policies, procedures, assessments, registers, plans and working tools designed to help organisations establish the core components of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).

Covering organisational context, leadership and planning through to Business Impact Analysis (BIA), continuity risk, business continuity planning, exercises, internal audit, management review and improvement, Essentials provides a practical starting point for organisations building or formalising their business continuity arrangements.

£129 | 45 numbered BCMS resources + START HERE guide | Editable Word & Excel files | Immediate digital delivery

What's Included?

The Essentials Toolkit contains 45 carefully selected BCMS resources covering the principal stages of BCMS implementation and operation.

1. Context & Scope

Establish the foundations of your Business Continuity Management System with:

• BCMS Scope
• Context Register
• Interested Parties Register

These resources help define where your BCMS applies and establish the organisational environment in which it operates.

2. Leadership & Responsibilities

Establish management direction and accountability through:

• Business Continuity Policy
• Roles, Responsibilities & Authorities

Use these resources to establish the organisation's commitment to business continuity and clarify responsibility for the BCMS.

3. BCMS Planning

Establish what your BCMS needs to achieve through:

• Risks & Opportunities Procedure
• Risks & Opportunities Register
• Business Continuity Objectives & Planning

These provide the core management-system planning structure needed to identify relevant issues and establish measurable objectives.

4. Competence, Awareness & Communication

Support effective operation of the BCMS through:

• Competence & Training Procedure
• Competence Matrix
• Awareness Procedure
• Communication Procedure

These resources help ensure relevant personnel understand their responsibilities and that competence, awareness and communication arrangements are established.

5. Documented Information

Maintain control over BCMS documentation and records through:

• Documented Information Control Procedure
• Master Document Register

Use these resources to establish appropriate controls over the creation, approval, revision and maintenance of BCMS documented information.

Business Impact Analysis & Recovery Priorities

A Business Impact Analysis is one of the most important elements of an effective BCMS.

Essentials includes practical resources to help determine what needs to be recovered, in what priority, and what those activities depend upon:

• BIA Policy & Methodology
• BIA Workbook
• Critical Activities & Recovery Priorities
• Dependency & Resource Requirements

These tools help move continuity planning away from assumptions and towards documented organisational requirements.

Business Continuity Risk Assessment

Understand disruption risks that could affect your organisation's ability to maintain or recover prioritised activities with:

• Business Continuity Risk Assessment Methodology
• Business Continuity Risk Register

These resources complement the BIA by helping identify and evaluate risks and vulnerabilities relevant to continuity capability.

Continuity Strategies & Solutions

Once recovery requirements and continuity risks are understood, Essentials helps you establish an appropriate response through:

• Strategies & Solutions Procedure
• Business Continuity Strategy Register

This provides a structured link between what the organisation needs to recover and how it intends to achieve that recovery.

Business Continuity Planning & Incident Response

Turn your analysis and strategies into practical arrangements using:

• Business Continuity Plans & Procedures Framework
• Business Continuity Plan Template
• Incident Assessment, Activation & Response Procedure
• Incident Assessment & Activation Checklist
• Emergency / Crisis Communication Plan
• Emergency Contact Register
• Recovery Action & Return-to-Normal Procedure

These resources provide the foundations for identifying and responding to disruption, communicating during an incident and managing recovery.

Exercises & Evaluation

A continuity plan needs to be more than a document.

Essentials therefore includes resources for exercising and evaluating your arrangements:

• Exercise & Testing Programme
• Exercise Plan & Scenario Template
• Exercise Observation & Evaluation Record
• Exercise Report & Improvement Plan

These tools help organisations test assumptions, identify weaknesses and generate evidence of exercised continuity arrangements.

Performance Evaluation

Once your BCMS is operating, Essentials provides resources to help determine whether it remains effective:

• Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis & Evaluation Procedure
• KPI / Performance Matrix
• Internal Audit Policy & Procedure
• Internal Audit Programme
• Internal Audit Plan & Report
• Management Review Policy & Procedure
• Management Review Agenda & Input Pack
• Management Review Minutes & Actions

This supports the important management-system cycle of monitoring → audit → management review → action.

Corrective Action & Improvement

Manage weaknesses and drive improvement through:

• Nonconformity & Corrective Action Procedure
• Nonconformity & Corrective Action Log
• Continual Improvement Procedure

This helps ensure issues identified through exercises, incidents, monitoring, audit or management review lead to controlled action rather than simply being recorded and forgotten.

From Analysis to Recovery

The Essentials Toolkit has been selected to preserve the fundamental continuity journey:

Business Impact Analysis → Continuity Risk Assessment → Strategies & Solutions → Business Continuity Plans → Exercises & Evaluation → Improvement

This is important.

A Business Continuity Plan should not simply be written in isolation. Your BIA should establish priorities and recovery requirements; continuity risks should be understood; strategies should then be selected to support those requirements; and plans should translate those arrangements into a usable response and recovery capability.

What Can the Essentials Toolkit Help You Do?

Use the toolkit to:

• Define your BCMS scope
• Understand organisational context and interested parties
• Establish a Business Continuity Policy
• Assign BCMS responsibilities
• Identify BCMS risks and opportunities
• Establish business continuity objectives
• Manage competence and awareness
• Establish communication arrangements
• Control BCMS documented information
• Conduct a Business Impact Analysis
• Determine critical activities and recovery priorities
• Identify dependencies and resource requirements
• Assess business continuity risks
• Establish continuity strategies
• Develop Business Continuity Plans
• Establish incident activation arrangements
• Plan crisis communications
• Manage recovery and return to normal
• Plan and evaluate business continuity exercises
• Monitor BCMS performance
• Conduct internal audits
• Perform management reviews
• Manage corrective actions
• Support continual improvement

Who Is Essentials For?

The ISO 22301 Essentials Toolkit is particularly suited to:

• Small and medium-sized organisations
• Organisations establishing their first formal BCMS
• Businesses formalising existing continuity arrangements
• Business Continuity and Resilience professionals
• Risk and Compliance teams
• Information Security teams
• Quality / Integrated Management System teams
• Internal auditors
• Consultants supporting BCMS implementation
• Organisations wanting a structured starting point without purchasing the full Verivexa suite

Every resource is customer-editable and should be tailored to reflect the organisation's actual activities, structure, risks, dependencies and continuity requirements.

Practical BCMS Resources — Without Starting From Scratch

Instead of building your BCMS documentation from a blank page, Essentials gives you a structured starting point covering the major elements of business continuity management.

The package combines:

Policies & procedures

Registers & working tools

Business Impact Analysis resources

Risk assessment tools

Business Continuity Planning resources

Exercise & evaluation tools

Internal audit resources

Management review resources

Corrective action & improvement tools

The objective is not simply to produce documentation — it is to help establish a working BCMS.

What You Receive

45 numbered ISO 22301 BCMS resources

Plus a dedicated Essentials START HERE guide explaining how to approach the toolkit and the recommended implementation sequence.

Resources are supplied in editable Microsoft Office formats, including:

Microsoft Word (.docx)
Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)

Your files are supplied as a structured digital toolkit for immediate download following purchase.

Which ISO 22301 Toolkit Is Right for You?

Need more implementation support?

Choose Professional if you want a broader working BCMS package with additional operational and governance resources plus implementation management tools.

Choose Complete if you want the full 78-resource Verivexa suite, including detailed implementation guidance, evidence/document mapping and dedicated Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification-readiness support.

Why Choose Verivexa™ Essentials?

A substantial starting point
45 carefully selected resources covering the core BCMS lifecycle.

Implementation-focused
Designed to help establish practical continuity arrangements rather than simply create a folder of policies.

BIA through to improvement
The toolkit maintains the important relationship between impact analysis, risk, strategies, planning, exercising and improvement.

Fully editable
Tailor the resources to your organisation rather than starting from a blank page.

Designed to grow with you
Upgrade to Professional or Complete if your organisation later requires additional resources, implementation guidance or certification-readiness support.

Important Information

The Verivexa™ ISO 22301 Essentials Toolkit provides templates and implementation support resources.

Documents must be reviewed, tailored, approved and implemented according to your organisation's scope, activities, risks, legal and contractual obligations and business continuity requirements.

Purchasing or completing the toolkit does not constitute ISO 22301 certification and cannot guarantee certification. Certification decisions are made independently by certification bodies following assessment of the organisation's implemented management system and supporting evidence.