National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO 21110:2019.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee IDT/2/9, Document preservation.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

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Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2019.

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1 Scope

This document provides a context for emergency planning, response and recovery for all types of an archive, library or museum collections in light of other existing plans. It provides responders and other stakeholders with an outline for planning, responding and recovering. This document does not address the causes of a critical event, but the consequences and wider impacts. This document outlines a cycle for developing, exercising and reviewing a plan, and how to present a plan. It aims to encourage responders to develop their capabilities in emergency preparedness and touches on some elements of response and recovery, where relevant, by highlighting indicators of good practice.

It is not intended to be an operations manual as there is no single approach that meets the needs of every site, nor is there one single set of organizational arrangements that is appropriate to each and every type of emergency.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Planning

4.1 Process of preparing

4.2 Understanding identified risks and their impact

4.3 Definition of emergency levels and phases

4.4 Alignment with other emergency plans

4.5 Plan content

4.6 Plan validation

4.7 Plan publication and distribution

4.8 Plan presentation

4.9 Plan maintenance procedures

4.10 Identifying tasks and resources

4.11 Organization

4.12 Responsibilities

4.13 Training

5 Response and recovery

5.1 Principles of effective response and recovery

5.2 Responding to an emergency

5.3 Recovering from an emergency

6 Indicators of performance

6.1 General

6.2 Indicators and methodology

Bibliography

BS ISO 21110:2019

Information and documentation. Emergency preparedness and response

Current

Published:

31 Aug 2019