Roads to Resilience

Summary of actions to achieve the ‘Rapid Response’ principle Research at the case study organisations resulted in the identification of a wide range of resilience practices under each of the four components of the rapid response principle, as follows:

Actions

Decisive and Appropriate Actions

Identified Teams and Processes

Empowered Responses

Rehearsed Reaction Plans

• classify risks

• establish nominated crisis management teams • introduce shared and structured risk training sessions • establish risk trigger levels and escalation procedures

• establish

• establish a

to resilience to assist planning • include scenario

authority levels for empowerment of staff • conduct scenario testing to ensure that responses are embedded • align resilience activities with

schedule of crisis rehearsal activities

• independent appraisal of the results of

planning in risk response plans

scenario testing

• respond to

internal whistle- blowing reports

• incorporate

improvements and recommendations

other roles and responsibilities

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Roads to Resilience: Building dynamic approaches to risk to achieve future success