UWEM BARC Posts
January 8, 2022
Business, Academic, and Research Continuity Planning Support and Technical Services
This is to serve notice to continuity plan managers that effective immediately all BARC technical assistance and support is suspended until further notice. Please utilize current resources in the BARC Teams site and our webpage to continue your planning efforts and we will inform you when services continue. We apologize for this inconvenience and we…
June 30, 2020
UW Online Intro to Personal Preparedness Course
Our friends at the UW Facilities Training Center have worked diligently to create an online version to the Intro to Personal Preparedness course. This course will help to assist you in creating a personal preparedness plan and improve emergency and disaster preparedness across all three UW campuses. This course can be used in as a…
March 20, 2020
New UW Continuity Checklist Developed Labs & Research Facilities
This is a challenging time for many as we adjust to working under the constraints of the COVID-19 situation and plan for impacts outside of our control, some of which may impact research continuity. In cooperation with the University’s Environmental Health and Safety Department, and input from the Office of Research, we collectively can provide…
February 7, 2020
Build Your Plan in a Year
The Build Your Plan in a Year pilot provides one small set of tasks each month for a year, with the goal of enabling a department to build a continuity of operations plan for business, academic and research programs. For more information about the conception and aims of this pilot, please view the blog post,…
February 5, 2020
BARC website improvements support new Provost’s Safety Initiative
At their regular meeting on February 5, 2020, the UW’s Board of Deans & Chancellors (BoDC) formally reviewed and endorsed a sweeping set of safety initiatives identified by Provost Mark Richards in a recent written directive. In his charge to the colleges and academic departments, the Provost identified seventeen (17) separate tasks and activities that…
November 29, 2018
Build Your Plan in a Year: Month 11
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. Congratulations–you have written your first version of your continuity plan! At this point you have drafted, reviewed and revised your plan–what more could there be?…
October 26, 2018
Build Your Plan in a Year: Month 10
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. At last you’re ready to make the finishing touches on your draft plan. You have identified your critical functions, prepared your staff at home, and…
September 26, 2018
Build your plan in a year: Month 9
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. At UW, Administrative Policy Statement 13.2 sets the requirements for department continuity planning. There are four required elements: Prioritized critical functions, staff preparedness, an alternative…
July 31, 2018
Build Your Husky Ready Plan in a Year: Month 7
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. Last month we detailed the IT systems and applications that are used daily to support business, and that would be used to drive our critical…
June 24, 2018
Build your Husky Ready Plan in a Year: Month 6
This post is part of a 2018 series breaking the process of business continuity planning for University of Washington departments into monthly tasks to help build a plan in a year. This month we will capture the details about your technology dependencies–both those with central IT and those managed entirely within your team. Next month we…
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