When a depot floods or the network goes down, people need an order of play, not a list of risks. This business continuity plan template gives operations and risk leads a calm, directive document: scope and assumptions, a business impact analysis, recovery priorities with RTO and RPO, activation and communications, crisis roles with a RACI, and a testing schedule.

The sample follows Kettleby Services, a 142-person field services firm. It ranks 12 critical activities by maximum tolerable downtime, restores systems in a fixed order within 4 hours for core and 24 hours for secondary, and names who calls whom within 30 minutes. Replace the activities, downtime limits, team members and phone numbers first, then rewrite the scenarios for the disruptions you can actually imagine.