The ISO 22301:2012 Business Continuity Management System standard specifies the requirements for organizations to establish and manage an effective business continuity system. It specifies the requirements for organizations to develop a documented management system to establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain and prepare to reduce risks and recover from catastrophic events in order to ensure business continuity.
The ISO 22301 standard ensures that you have a serious stance both within your organization and towards your customers, that you meet their expectations and that you are fully prepared for possible adverse situations that may occur. The standard is an advanced best practice of the previously published BS 25999 Business Continuity Standard, which was issued as an ISO standard.

Every business must be prepared for the unexpected. Situations such as natural disasters, human errors or technological failures threaten business continuity. ISO 22301 is a standard that determines how resilient a business is to such unexpected events.

ISO 22301 is an international standard for business continuity management. This standard specifies the steps required to ensure business continuity against any type of incident. ISO 22301 determines how a business should respond in a crisis and how quickly it can return its business to normal.