FFP 2841 - Contingency Planning for Business and Industry

College of Public Safety Administration

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2021 (595)

Course Description

This course focuses on the contingency planning process for disaster preparedness in the corporate world. The student will develop a step-by-step approach to emergency planning, response and recovery for companies of all sizes.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will develop a mock contingency plan/business recovery plan by:
    1. differentiating between hot, warm and cold sites.
    2. describing the business management cycle by:
      1. assembling the team.
      2. preparing the budget.
      3. identifying critical business functions.
  2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of business recovery strategies by:
    1. describing benefits of offsite operations.
    2. describing benefits of redundant operations where applicable.
    3. identifying high-reliability systems.
    4. describing the optimum mix of recovery strategies.
  3. The student will demonstrate the ability to maintain the plan by testing, evaluating and revising business recovery strategies by:
    1. using tabletop exercises.
    2. using functional exercises.
    3. c. using full-scale exercises.
  4. The student will understand the benefits of corporate responsibility by:
    1. identifying legal responsibilities.
    2. describing benefits of community involvement.
    3. describing marketing opportunities/corporate benefits of community involvement.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of this course the student will, with a minimum of 70 percent accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 11/19/96; DBT 12/17/96 Effective Session 19962. We asked the SCNS to accept this course as EAM 2003, but they rejected the whole EAM prefix and sent this course back as FFP 2486, effective Session 19982. 3 year review 2000. # chg by Field Review eff 20021. 3 Year Review 2004. Effective 20083(0410). C&I Approval: 02/24/2009, BOT Approval: 03/17/2009, Effective Term: Summer 2009 (410). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2021 (585).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2021 (595)

Related Programs

  1. Emergency Administration and Management (EAM-CT) (625) (Active)
  2. Homeland Security and Emergency Management (EAM-AS) (640) (Active)
  3. Public Safety Administration (PSA-TR) (670) (Active)