Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a core component of Business Continuity Management (BCM) that enables Jamiyah Singapore (JS) to identify critical operational activities, understand the consequences of disruption, and determine the minimum capabilities needed to sustain essential services.
For CBF-1 Residential Care and Resident Safety, the BIA must recognise that residential service continuity involves more than maintaining access to accommodation. It includes resident supervision, safeguarding, essential daily living assistance, nutrition, hygiene, care coordination, emergency response, resident information management, and safe recovery arrangements.
Disruptions to these activities may have immediate consequences for residents who depend on Jamiyah Singapore for their safety, well-being, and daily support.
Accordingly, the first component of the BIA involves identifying the detailed Sub-Critical Business Functions (Sub-CBFs) that collectively support Residential Care and Resident Safety.
These Sub-CBFs represent the operational processes through which residential care is planned, delivered, monitored, supported, and recovered.
Identifying Sub-CBFs provides a structured basis for assessing individual operational activities rather than treating residential care as a single, undifferentiated function.
For example, Jamiyah Singapore may temporarily defer new resident referrals during a major disruption, whereas resident supervision, essential meals, safeguarding, and emergency response may need to remain continuously available.
By examining each process separately, Jamiyah Singapore can determine:
This approach supports the principles of ISO 22301 Clause 8.2 concerning Business Impact Analysis and risk assessment.
The Business Unit Minimum Business Continuity Objective (BU MBCO) defines the minimum acceptable operational capability that an individual Sub-CBF must maintain during a disruption.
In this chapter, BU MBCO applies at the Sub-CBF level to establish measurable minimum operating requirements.
Each BU MBCO identifies the essential outcome that must remain achievable, even when normal staffing, facilities, technology, supplies, or other resources are unavailable.
For example:
The BU MBCO describes the minimum service level to maintain, not the time required to recover an interrupted activity.
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) will be determined separately through the subsequent BIA assessment of disruption impacts over time.
The BU MBCOs for CBF-1 must support Jamiyah Singapore's proposed Corporate MBCO, which prioritises beneficiary safety, continuity of essential residential and healthcare-related services, safeguarding, emergency communications, and minimum operational support during disruption.
For CBF-1, the overarching minimum continuity commitment is:
Maintain safe accommodation, essential resident supervision, safeguarding, and necessary daily care for all residents under Jamiyah Singapore's responsibility, including through approved alternative arrangements when normal residential facilities or resources are unavailable.
The 26 BU MBCOs presented below translate this commitment into individual process-level requirements.
Assessment assumptions: The proposed objectives are illustrative minimum service requirements, not confirmed JS policies.
Where activities involve resident safety, clinical care, safeguarding or licensed operations, applicable professional, staffing, and regulatory requirements take precedence.
Confirm numerical thresholds against actual resident needs and operating arrangements.
Table BIA Part 1: Identification of Business Functions for Sub-CBF-1 Residential Care and Resident Safety
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Sub-CBF Code |
Sub-Critical Business Function |
Description of Business Function |
Business Unit Minimum Business Continuity Objective (BU MBCO) |
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1.1 |
Receive and Assess Resident Referrals |
Receive and review resident referrals, assess eligibility, identify urgent placement needs, and determine whether the residential service can provide appropriate support. |
Maintain the capability to receive, record, and assess 100% of referrals identified as urgent or involving immediate safeguarding concerns through an authorised intake channel. Routine referrals may be deferred under approved prioritisation criteria. |
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1.2 |
Coordinate Resident Admission and Registration |
Complete essential admission procedures, verify identity and authorisations, register resident information, and establish initial care and accommodation arrangements. |
Maintain the capability to admit and register residents requiring urgent placement, including capturing essential identity, care, safeguarding, and emergency contact information before or at the point of placement. Routine admissions may be rescheduled. |
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1.3 |
Assess Resident Care and Support Requirements |
Evaluate resident needs relating to daily living, mobility, supervision, safeguarding and healthcare coordination to establish appropriate support arrangements. |
Complete a minimum safety and care-needs assessment for every resident requiring new or materially changed support, ensuring that essential supervision, mobility and healthcare-related needs are identified before the relevant care arrangements are implemented. |
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1.4 |
Develop and Maintain Individual Resident Care Plans |
Prepare, review, and update individual care plans that document essential daily support, safeguarding arrangements, responsibilities, and escalation requirements. |
Maintain an accessible minimum care plan for 100% of residents, identifying essential care needs, supervision requirements, critical contacts and emergency arrangements. Non-essential documentation updates may be deferred. |
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1.5 |
Allocate Residential Accommodation and Facilities |
Assign appropriate rooms, beds, and supporting facilities based on resident needs, accommodation suitability, and safety requirements. |
Maintain safe and suitable accommodation for all residents remaining under JS's care, including essential sleeping arrangements, sanitation and accessibility. Activate approved alternative accommodation when existing premises cannot meet minimum safety requirements. |
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1.6 |
Determine and Assign Residential Care Staffing |
Establish staffing requirements, duty rosters, supervision coverage and contingency arrangements for residential care delivery. |
Maintain sufficient, appropriately trained, and authorised personnel across all required shifts to meet resident dependency levels, supervision needs, and applicable staffing requirements. Ensure essential duties remain covered through approved replacement or redeployment arrangements. |
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1.7 |
Maintain Resident Supervision and Accountability |
Supervise residents, conduct welfare and accountability checks, maintain occupancy information and identify missing or unaccounted-for residents. |
Maintain continuous, safe supervision of residents and an accurate accountability record for 100% of residents present, escalating missing-person or safeguarding concerns immediately. Required supervision intervals must be maintained. |
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1.8 |
Provide Essential Daily Living Assistance |
Support residents who require assistance with mobility, dressing, personal activities, and other essential daily living needs. |
Provide all assessed essential daily living assistance necessary to prevent avoidable harm, neglect or deterioration in resident welfare. Prioritise residents with the highest dependency needs while deferring non-essential support activities where safe. |
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1.9 |
Provide Essential Meals and Hydration |
Coordinate meal preparation or supply, dietary requirements, safe food distribution and access to drinking water. |
Maintain sufficient safe meals and drinking water for 100% of residents requiring provision, including medically indicated dietary arrangements and assistance with eating or drinking. Activate approved alternative catering or supply arrangements when necessary. |
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1.10 |
Maintain Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Support |
Provide essential personal hygiene assistance and maintain sanitary living conditions, washing facilities, and infection-prevention measures. |
Maintain minimum hygiene and sanitation arrangements for all residents, prioritising personal care, toileting, hand hygiene, essential cleaning and infection prevention. Activate alternative sanitation measures when normal facilities are unavailable. |
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1.11 |
Coordinate Essential Medication and Healthcare Support |
Coordinate with authorised nursing and healthcare personnel to maintain medication schedules, essential care activities and clinical escalation arrangements. |
Ensure all identified time-critical medication and healthcare needs are addressed by appropriately authorised personnel or approved transfer arrangements, without unsafe interruption. Maintain access to essential medication information and escalation contacts. |
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1.12 |
Monitor Resident Welfare and Changes in Condition |
Conduct resident welfare observations, identify changes in physical or behavioural condition, and escalate concerns that require intervention. |
Maintain the minimum resident monitoring and welfare checks required by individual care needs. Escalate identified urgent deterioration or safeguarding concerns immediately to designated personnel. |
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1.13 |
Maintain Resident Safeguarding and Protection |
Implement resident protection measures, monitor potential abuse or neglect, manage safeguarding concerns and activate required escalation procedures. |
Maintain effective safeguarding arrangements for all residents, including the ability to identify, document and escalate suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or immediate safety threats through approved reporting channels. |
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1.14 |
Maintain Residential Facility Safety and Security |
Monitor premises safety, fire protection, access control, security risks, hazardous conditions and the availability of emergency safety equipment. |
Maintain residential areas in a condition suitable for safe occupancy, with essential fire protection, access control and hazard management functioning. Isolate unsafe areas and protect or relocate residents as necessary. |
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1.15 |
Maintain Essential Utilities and Environmental Conditions |
Coordinate electricity, water, lighting, ventilation, sanitation and other environmental services necessary for safe residential operations. |
Maintain the minimum utility and environmental conditions required for safe accommodation and essential care. Where normal utilities fail, activate approved backup arrangements or relocate affected residents before conditions become unsafe. |
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1.16 |
Manage Resident Incidents and Immediate Emergencies |
Respond to resident incidents, take immediate protective action, activate emergency assistance, escalate serious events, and maintain incident records. |
Maintain the capability to respond immediately to life-threatening or serious resident incidents, initiate appropriate protective measures, contact emergency services where required and account for affected residents. |
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1.17 |
Maintain Resident Records and Essential Information |
Maintain and retrieve resident identification, care plans, emergency contacts, incident information and other records necessary for safe residential care. |
Ensure authorised personnel can access the essential information required to support 100% of residents under care, using secure primary systems or approved controlled downtime records when normal ICT services are unavailable. |
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1.18 |
Coordinate Resident and Family Communications |
Communicate essential information to residents, families, caregivers, and authorised representatives about safety, care arrangements, and service disruptions. |
Maintain at least one approved communication method for urgent resident and family notifications. Ensure priority contacts can be reached or attempted according to the approved escalation and notification procedure, with communication records retained. |
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1.19 |
Coordinate External Healthcare and Emergency Services |
Arrange urgent healthcare referrals, ambulance support, external care coordination, emergency transfers and relevant handover information. |
Maintain the capability to request emergency healthcare assistance and coordinate clinically necessary transfers for all affected residents, including essential handover information and safe transfer arrangements. |
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1.20 |
Maintain Essential Residential Supplies and Equipment |
Monitor stock levels, procure or replenish essential supplies, maintain care equipment and coordinate replacement resources. |
Maintain access to the minimum quantities of essential care supplies, hygiene materials, bedding, equipment and other resources necessary to support approved minimum residential care levels. Activate alternative sourcing before critical stock depletion. |
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1.21 |
Manage Resident Activities and Essential Welfare Support |
Coordinate resident engagement, essential welfare activities, psychosocial support and appropriate daily routines. |
Maintain necessary resident welfare monitoring, psychosocial support and meaningful engagement appropriate to individual needs. Temporarily suspend non-essential recreational and enrichment activities without compromising safety or essential welfare. |
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1.22 |
Activate Residential Care Continuity Arrangements |
Assess operational disruption, determine whether continuity arrangements are required, notify responsible personnel and mobilise approved recovery resources. |
Maintain the capability for an authorised decision-maker to assess significant residential care disruption, activate the appropriate continuity arrangements and mobilise essential recovery personnel and resources before minimum safe care levels are compromised. |
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1.23 |
Coordinate Emergency Resident Relocation and Alternative Accommodation |
Assess relocation needs, identify suitable alternative premises, coordinate transportation, transfer resident information and maintain accountability during relocation. |
Maintain the capability to safely relocate all residents affected by unsafe or unusable premises to suitable approved accommodation or care arrangements, with required staffing, essential supplies, resident accountability and appropriate handovers. |
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1.24 |
Maintain Essential Care at the Recovery Location |
Establish temporary residential operations and maintain essential supervision, meals, hygiene, care coordination, records and welfare support at an alternative location. |
Maintain the approved minimum residential care level for 100% of relocated residents, including supervision, accommodation, meals, hydration, hygiene, safeguarding and access to essential care information. |
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1.25 |
Restore Normal Residential Care Operations |
Verify facility safety, restore normal resources, coordinate resident return, reconcile records and transition from temporary arrangements to normal care operations. |
Maintain minimum safe care throughout the transition and restore normal residential operations only after facilities, staffing, utilities, supplies and required safety conditions have been verified and authorised. |
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1.26 |
Conduct Post-Incident Review and Care Continuity Improvement |
Review incidents and recovery performance, identify deficiencies, document lessons learned and implement improvements to residential care continuity arrangements. |
Maintain the capability to record significant incidents and recovery evidence, assign corrective actions and conduct a structured review within the organisation's approved review period. Escalate urgent safety deficiencies without waiting for the formal review. |
Note: The BU MBCOs above are proposed operational requirements.
References to 100% coverage mean that every person within the specified safeguarding or essential-care population must be appropriately accounted for or supported.
They do not imply that all routine activities must operate at full capacity. Response times, staffing ratios, stock thresholds and other detailed measures require confirmation through the BIA and applicable service requirements.
The BU MBCOs establish the minimum outcomes that individual residential care processes must deliver during disruption.
Translate these outcomes into practical requirements covering personnel, facilities, equipment, information, supplies, and external support.
For example, the BU MBCO for Sub-CBF 1.7, Maintain Resident Supervision and Accountability, requires continuous safe supervision of residents.
Achieving this objective depends on sufficient personnel, accurate resident information, appropriate monitoring arrangements, and safe premises.
Similarly, the BU MBCO for Sub-CBF 1.23, Coordinate Emergency Resident Relocation and Alternative Accommodation, depends on suitable alternative premises, transportation, staffing, essential resident records and the ability to transfer residents safely.
Table 3.1: Minimum Operational Capability Categories
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Capability Category |
Minimum Requirement for CBF-1 |
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People |
Appropriately trained personnel available to maintain safe resident care and supervision |
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Facilities |
Safe residential premises or suitable approved alternative accommodation |
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Essential Care |
Necessary supervision, meals, hydration, hygiene, welfare support and healthcare coordination |
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ICT and Information |
Secure access to essential resident information and emergency contacts |
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Equipment |
Essential care, safety, communication and mobility equipment |
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Supplies |
Sufficient food, drinking water, hygiene materials and necessary care supplies |
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External Services |
Access to emergency services, healthcare providers, transport and essential suppliers |
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Management and Coordination |
Authorised personnel able to activate continuity arrangements and coordinate recovery |
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Communications |
Reliable methods for contacting care personnel, families, emergency services and relevant stakeholders |
Establish the required quantities and capacities through BIAQ T3, BIAQ T4, and BIAQ T5, supported by the subsequent Business Continuity Strategy assessment.
Assess the 26 Sub-CBFs individually to determine their disruption tolerances.
For initial BIA planning, they may be grouped into the following categories.
Table 4.1: Preliminary Sub-CBF Continuity Priorities
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Classification |
Sub-CBFs |
Preliminary Continuity Expectation |
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Continuous Essential Care |
1.6–1.13 |
Maintain required staffing, supervision, daily living assistance, meals, hygiene, healthcare coordination, welfare monitoring and safeguarding |
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Immediate Safety and Emergency Response |
1.14–1.16, 1.19 |
Maintain immediate response capability for unsafe conditions, essential utility failures, emergencies and urgent healthcare needs |
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Essential Information and Operational Support |
1.17, 1.18, 1.20 |
Maintain access to critical information, communications and supplies sufficient to support safe care |
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Conditional Continuity Activation and Recovery |
1.22–1.25 |
Activate as required to sustain minimum care during significant disruption |
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Prioritised Planning and Support Activities |
1.1–1.5, 1.21, 1.26 |
Continue urgent or safety-critical activities while allowing appropriately authorised deferral of routine activities |
This classification is indicative only. For example, an urgent resident admission involving an immediate safeguarding concern may require a faster response than a routine admission.
Determine formal recovery priorities through the impact-over-time assessment rather than relying solely on these preliminary groupings.
The BU MBCO, RTO and MTPD are related but distinct elements of the Business Impact Analysis.
Table 5.1: Application to Residential Care
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Assessment Element |
Meaning |
Residential Care Application |
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BU MBCO |
Minimum acceptable service level during disruption |
Maintain safe supervision and essential daily care for all residents |
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MTPD |
Maximum duration before disruption consequences become unacceptable |
Determine the maximum tolerable interruption for each activity based on resident safety and welfare impacts |
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RTO |
Target time for resuming an interrupted activity |
Establish the time by which an interrupted process must be restored or an approved alternative must become operational |
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Minimum Resource Requirement |
Resources required to achieve the BU MBCO |
Determine essential staffing, facilities, information, supplies and supporting services |
For some residential care processes, the BU MBCO may require continuous delivery without an unsafe interruption. In such cases, continuity arrangements must be available immediately or before the normal operating capability is lost.
For other activities, a temporary interruption may be acceptable, provided the consequences remain within approved tolerances.
The detailed BIA should establish these requirements based on actual resident needs, service conditions and regulatory obligations.
The completed Sub-CBF inventory and BU MBCOs provide the foundation for the remaining BIA components.
BIAQ P2 — Impact Areas of Business Functions will identify the consequences of disruption to each Sub-CBF.
BIAQ P3 — Impact Over Time of Business Functions will determine how these consequences develop over time and establish recovery requirements.
BIAQ P4 — Supporting IT Systems and Applications will identify the technology and information resources required to achieve the BU MBCOs.
BIAQ P5 — Inter-dependencies will document internal and external relationships affecting residential care delivery.
BIAQ P6 — Vital Records will identify the records necessary for safe resident care and recovery.
The Business Continuity Strategy phase will use the BU MBCOs to identify practical continuity solutions.
For example:
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Sub-CBF |
BU MBCO Requirement |
Potential Recovery Strategy |
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1.6 Residential Care Staffing |
Maintain required care staffing and supervision |
Cross-trained personnel, approved replacement staffing and contingency rosters |
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1.9 Essential Meals and Hydration |
Maintain safe food and drinking water provision |
Emergency food stocks, alternative catering and water supplies |
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1.15 Essential Utilities |
Maintain safe environmental conditions |
Backup power, emergency water and alternative premises |
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1.17 Resident Records |
Maintain essential information access |
Secure offline records and protected system backups |
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1.23 Emergency Relocation |
Relocate residents safely when premises are unusable |
Pre-identified alternative accommodation, transport and transfer procedures |
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1.24 Care at Recovery Location |
Maintain essential care for relocated residents |
Recovery staffing, essential supplies and temporary care arrangements |
Evaluate these strategies for feasibility, resource requirements, safety, and compliance with applicable service obligations.
The approved BU MBCOs should be reflected in the residential care recovery procedures.
Each relevant procedure should specify:
The BU MBCOs also support operational resilience by defining the essential outcomes that must be preserved when critical resources or supporting services fail.
They provide a basis for developing severe but plausible disruption scenarios and evaluating whether Jamiyah Singapore can continue delivering safe residential care under adverse conditions.
This may include assessing the simultaneous loss of premises, utilities, ICT services, staff availability or essential suppliers.
The relevant residential care management and supporting functions should review the proposed BU MBCOs before formal adoption.
Table 7.1: Recommended Review and Approval Responsibilities
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Activity |
Responsible Contributor |
Required Review |
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Validate the 26 Sub-CBFs |
Residential Care Process Owners |
Head of Residential Care |
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Confirm essential care and supervision requirements |
Residential Care Management |
Relevant Safeguarding and Care Specialists |
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Confirm healthcare coordination requirements |
Residential Care and Healthcare Representatives |
Authorised Healthcare Lead |
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Confirm minimum staffing requirements |
Residential Care and HR Representatives |
Relevant Service Management |
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Confirm facility and utility dependencies |
Facilities Representatives |
BCM Coordinator |
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Confirm ICT and record requirements |
ICT and Records Representatives |
BCM Coordinator |
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Review BU MBCO consistency |
BCM Coordinator |
BCM Steering Committee |
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Approve minimum continuity requirements |
Designated Senior Management |
Authorised Management Approver |
Approval should confirm that each BU MBCO is operationally meaningful, measurable where appropriate, consistent with the Corporate MBCO, and supported by realistic continuity arrangements.
Retain the completed assessment as controlled BCM documentation and review it whenever significant operational changes occur.
Identifying detailed Sub-Critical Business Functions and establishing Business Unit Minimum Business Continuity Objectives are important first steps in the Business Impact Analysis of CBF-1 Residential Care and Resident Safety.
For Jamiyah Singapore, the 26 Sub-CBFs provide a structured representation of the residential care lifecycle, covering admission, assessment, care planning, staffing, supervision, daily living support, nutrition, hygiene, safeguarding, facility safety, emergency response, relocation and restoration of normal operations.
By defining a BU MBCO for each Sub-CBF, Jamiyah Singapore can establish the minimum operational capability required to maintain essential residential care during disruption.
These objectives clearly distinguish activities that must remain continuously available from those that may be temporarily deferred, subject to resident needs and applicable requirements.
The completed assessment also establishes the foundation for determining disruption impacts, Maximum Tolerable Periods of Disruption, Recovery Time Objectives, minimum resource requirements and critical dependencies.
During Business Continuity Strategy development, the BU MBCOs will guide the selection of mitigation measures, alternative service arrangements, emergency staffing solutions, backup resources and recovery capabilities.
During Business Continuity Plan Development, they will provide the operational requirements that recovery procedures must achieve.
From an operational resilience perspective, the BU MBCOs will support the evaluation of whether essential residential care can continue when normal facilities, personnel, technology, suppliers or other critical resources are unavailable.
The ultimate objective is to ensure that Jamiyah Singapore can maintain the safety, supervision, safeguarding and essential care of every resident under its responsibility, even when normal residential operations are disrupted.
The next stage of the BIA will use these validated Sub-CBFs and BU MBCOs to complete BIA Part 2 — Impact Areas of Business Functions (BIAQ T2), followed by the assessment of impacts over time and the determination of detailed recovery requirements.
Implementation note from author: The 26 Sub-CBFs have been retained exactly as provided. The BU MBCOs are proposed implementation examples and require validation against Jamiyah Singapore's actual resident population, care requirements, facilities, staffing arrangements, and applicable legal or licensing obligations. ISO 22301 provides the BCMS requirements but does not mandate this specific BU MBCO template or the numerical measures used in the examples.
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