Identifying Potential Threats

Your BCP starts by recognizing the potential threats that could impact your business. Some threats such as floods and earthquakes are likely to be of greater risk to some areas more than others. In the sample list below, check off the potential threats that could realistically affect your business. Add any threats that could affect your specific business.

• Disease outbreak
• Essential services failure (power, telecommunications)
• Transportation accident
• Flooding
• Water shortage or contamination
• Severe weather conditions (blizzards, tornadoes)
• Fire
• Labour walkout or strike
• Supply chain interruption
• Earthquake (Central Canada is in an earthquake zone too)
• Technology collapse
• Terrorism/sabotage/cyber terrorism
• Bioterrorism
• Environmental disaster (hazardous materials spill)