Show customers, suppliers, and stakeholders that your business is prepared for every eventuality with ISO 22301 certification.
At iso360, we help you approach ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management Systems) certification in a practical, proportionate way that works in your organisational context.
Build business resilience with ISO 22301 certification:
ISO 22301 is the international standard for business continuity management systems (BCMS).
It gives organisations a clear framework for identifying critical activities, assessing disruption risks, planning responses, and improving resilience over time.
In simple terms, it helps you prepare for the stuff that can seriously disrupt your business.
Whether that’s a cyber incident, supplier failure, power outage, flood, staffing issue, system downtime, or another unexpected event, having ISO 22301 in place means you’re prepared for anything.
Instead of reacting in the moment and hoping for the best, ISO 22301 business continuity management helps you build a structured, repeatable approach to keeping key services running and recovering quickly if the worst happens.
ISO 22301 certification also shows customers, partners, insurers, and regulators that you take continuity planning seriously and manage it properly, which says a lot about your values.
To achieve ISO 22301 certification, your organisation needs to build, implement, maintain, and improve a business continuity management system that meets the standard’s requirements.
This usually includes:
You’ll need to define the scope of your BCMS, understand the internal and external issues that affect continuity, and identify the needs of relevant interested parties.
Senior leadership must support the BCMS, set direction, and make sure business continuity responsibilities are clear.
A core part of ISO 22301 business continuity management is understanding what matters most. That means identifying critical products, services, activities, dependencies, and the impact of disruption.
You’ll need documented strategies and response plans for maintaining or restoring key activities within acceptable timeframes.
This may include resources, competence, communication, document control, awareness, and operational procedures linked to continuity planning.
It’s not enough to write a plan and leave it in a folder. ISO 22301 expects organisations to test arrangements, review outcomes, and improve over time.
Before certification, your BCMS should be checked internally and reviewed by leadership to make sure it’s working effectively.
Like other ISO standards, ISO 22301 is based on continual improvement. Your system should evolve as your business, risks, and dependencies change.
At iso360, we help you work towards ISO 22301 certification without drowning your team in paperwork or handing over a generic template and wishing you luck.
Resilience looks different in every organisation. A fast-growing tech business has different continuity risks from a healthcare provider, logistics firm, or financial services company. That’s why our support is tailored to your structure and pressure points.
We can help with:
Our approach is collaborative and respectful. We work with your team, not around them, and always respect their expertise.
A typical ISO 22301 journey with iso360 looks like this:
We start by understanding your business, key services, dependencies, risks, and existing continuity arrangements. From there, we define the scope of your BCMS and identify what needs to happen next.
We assess where you are against the requirements of ISO 22301 certification and highlight what is already in place, what’s missing, and what needs strengthening.
We help you build the structure of your business continuity management system, including policies, responsibilities, continuity objectives, and supporting processes.
Together, we identify critical activities, assess disruption impacts, prioritise recovery needs, and shape appropriate continuity strategies.
We support the creation of practical business continuity plans, communication processes, incident response arrangements, and relevant documentation.
You’ll receive support and guidance embed your system and increase awareness among your team. Together, we prepare for exercises, audits, and management review so your BCMS is not just documented, but genuinely understood.
Before you go for external audit, we help you spot weaknesses, tidy up loose ends, and feel confident about your certification journey.
Certification is not the finish line. We can continue supporting you as your organisation changes, helping you maintain and improve your BCMS over time.
ISO 22301 business continuity management certification can be valuable for a wide range of organisations, but it’s especially useful for businesses where disruption would have a serious operational, financial, contractual, or reputational impact.
This often includes:
If your customers rely on you to keep delivering, or your business can’t afford long periods of downtime, ISO 22301 is worth serious consideration.
Depending on the level of support you need, deliverables may include:
ISO 22301 certification is independent confirmation that your organisation’s business continuity management system meets the requirements of the ISO 22301 standard.
It covers the planning, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of a business continuity management system, helping organisations prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption.
It is useful for any organisation that depends on continuity of service, but it is especially relevant for businesses in sectors like tech, finance, healthcare, logistics, and other service-critical environments.
No, ISO 22301 certification is not mandatory by law. However, some clients, contracts, industries, or regulators may strongly prefer or expect it.
It depends on your starting point, the size and complexity of your organisation, and how mature your current continuity arrangements are. Some businesses need a straightforward uplift, while others need to build their BCMS from the ground up.
Business continuity is broader. It covers how your organisation continues delivering critical activities during disruption. Disaster recovery is usually more focused on restoring systems, infrastructure, or IT services after an incident.
Not every small business will need certification, but many SMEs benefit from the structure and resilience it brings, particularly if your business is growing, regulated, or contractually accountable for reliable delivery.
We can support you with gap analysis, BCMS development, documentation, continuity planning, internal audits, and certification readiness, all tailored to your business, as well as ongoing compliance management for this and other standards.
With the right support, ISO 22301 certification can become a practical tool for protecting your business, strengthening customer confidence, and building a more resilient organisation.