Communication is an important key concept in any business continuity plan, it is very important to keep consist communication through any situation. Communication can be defined as the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior. In any emergency situation regardless if you lose one key employee, one strategic system, your whole building, or perhaps your entire network, communications will always be the most critical element to ensure that people can effectively manage and recover from the disruption. Huffman Trucking will have to have a communication plan in place to have communication objectives, goals, tools to ensure the communication plan will be successful. Huffman should promptly notify all employees of a pending disaster, and important evacuation instructions should be relayed to the employees. Management should always be able to communicate with individuals located in isolated areas or in multiple locations, and management should most certainly be aware of every employee’s evacuation plans to make sure that they can be communicated to in a timely manner during a disaster.
When a disaster occurs Huffman will use communication to relate information to all individuals involved throughout the entire situation. Communication will be part of the recovery and restoration parts of plan, throughout the course of the plan everyone must communicate in one form or another. Business continuity planning (BCP) is a very important for organizations that hope to remain in operation following a major disaster or business disruption, this is why it is important to train employees on the reasons why communication is essential to the BCP. For example drivers must be trained on how they will communication a situation that may occur on the road during the transport of a truck load. If for some reason the truck is going to be delayed due to bad weather conditions, an accident, ect the driver must be aware of the necessary...