Exercising plans

The purpose of exercising incident management and business continuity plans is to provide reassurance to you, your staff, students, regulatory bodies, insurers and the University as a whole that the plans would enable your institution to respond quickly and effectively to any incident.

The Incident Management and Business Continuity Policy strongly recommends that plans are exercised annually, especially institutions at higher risk (see the Policy's operational guidance). All plans must be exercised at least every three years. Please see Desktop Exercises (restricted to university account holders) for guidance and material to support the exercising of plans against different scenarios and how the Business Continuity team can help facilitate exercises.