Transcript of COOP Plan.mov

       Welcome to your continuity connection. If your department or agency has to  relocate from its primary site to an alternate operating facility.  You need to have a continuity plan in place to make the transition, and the procedures to implement the continuity plan.  Continuity of operations is probably one of our most  essential tasks in the government. Governments are going to be expected to do their job no matter what the  situation is, and  the public is going to rely on us to do  our jobs. So it is incumbent upon all of us as government  employees to do what  we're supposed to do.  A continuity plan must be well thought out with buy in from leadership and staff. A lot of hard work and coordination is required to make it happen. Well there should be some type of continuity group an internal continuity group that consist of representatives with authority in each one of the business units of an organization, and  these guys come together  and they sort of  come up with "what if" situations. They kind of  build a plan over a period of time.  Fortunately, work place emergencies  don't happen everyday.  Still your continuity plan and procedures have to be tested and validated. There's a federal guidance document that  says that a plant should be  tested at least annually. But, basically any organization should have a series  of test training and exercises to ensure that the plan is validated. The things that they,  that you have put together, you structured actually work. To find out more about  continuity programs, contact your  supervisor or continuity planner. When you do, you'll make the continuity connection.