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Certification BS 25999

What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)?

Standard BS 25999 (Business Continuity Management) was created to satisfy the needs of customers, clients, government, regulators and all interested parties. Implementation Business Continuity Management (BCM) gives your clients assurance that you will be capable of managing business continuity at a time of disruption. Certification demonstrates to your customers, suppliers, staff and investors that you follow the best practices laid down in standard BS 25999 ( Business Continuity Management ). Certification shows your Business Continuity Management (BCM) system has passed a independent inspection. Certification is a visible way of meeting your customers' expectations and emphasis due diligence to key stakeholders.

Independent advantages of BCM

• Procedures of BCM will either minimize the probability of the threats occurring, or of their impacts affecting the continuity of the organization.
• We can minimize the probability of the threats occurring, or of their impacts affecting the continuity of the organization and that means you can make the right decisions quickly, cut downtime and minimize financial losses.
• Showing that you have BCM in place by being certified to BS 25999 is one way of proving this.
• The using of standards enhances productivity and competitiveness.
• This better understanding of an organization can lead to the improvement and streamlining of processes and potentially even cost reductions.
• You can be confident that consensus based BCM standards such as BS 25999 can make supply chains more robust, improve enterprise stability, increase job security and ensure the flow of money into communities.
• Having standards in place not only helps with the management of current operations, but also aids future growth.
• Having a BCM program in place means you can illustrate to customers or clients how you may be able to recover your operation within just a few hours if you were say to lose your capability to operate from your existing location.
• The planning that goes into a BCM program, especially the business impact analysis, can often be a way of taking stock of an entire organization's processes.
• The effective handling of any incident - particularly a large-scale one - can have a positive effect on a company's market value.
• This better understanding of an organization can lead to the improvement and streamlining of processes and potentially even cost reductions.
• Successfully navigating a potentially devastating incident can significantly increase customer confidence in an organization. In the case of an industry-wide incident, a company may be judged against its competitors on how the incident is managed.
• Having good Business Continuity Management is great for your reputation even after an adverse event.
• Things such as loss of business opportunities, loss of reputation, the cost of losing current business customers, the erosion of brand value and new products and services being delayed or cancelled.

Who need that?

Business Continuity Management is relevant to any organization, large or small, from any sector. Practically, there is little doubt that the ability to survive an incident and be able to get back to business as soon as possible is a requirement of doing business in today's risk averse world It is particularly relevant for those organizations which operate in high risk environments such as finance, telecommunications, transport and the public sector, where the ability to continue operating is essential, both for the organization itself, and its customers and stakeholders.

This may not be for every organization, but if you are in a very competitive sector and you are a key supplier to anyone then it is surely something to think about earlier rather than later.

LesTest carries out evaluations of requirements of BS 25999 for organizations and industrial companies and issues certificates, and also development & implementation of BCM programs.

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LT certification for trade

Compliance with the acts and regulations on forest resources purchasing and trading, allows to protect economic interests of the government and of private companies.

LESTEST has designed and is developing the certification system for the support of image of timber enterprises. Within the limits of the system the assessment on conformity to two standards is made:
- SD 14-01-2004 - Legality of an origin of timber,
- SD 15-01-2004 - the Environmental responsibility.
Conformity to standard SD 14-01-2004 is also necessary for successful fulfillment of standard FSC/COC in case when forest products are used for manufacture from non-certified sources, and also for fulfillment of conditions of trading contracts. Conformity to standard SD 15-01-2004 is used at crediting the enterprises for image support. LESTEST uses Trust Tracking system (SD 25-01-2004) - the system of electronic information and certificate validation- to promote the certified products of its customers. The system comprises consumer from dozens of countries around the world.

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FSC certification

The independent forest certification is a marketing tool for the product promotion on the timber market. Any assessment systems for forest administration, made by the third independent party add the company's better image. The certification of activity on conformity to principles and criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) provides a global recognition of methods of forestry administration of the company. The FSC standards compliance shows that the forest administration of the company is based on the balance of social, economic and environmental factors. Participation of various interested organizations in the process of allows the auditor companies make a more effective and objective assessment.

LesTest carries out evaluations of forest management (FM) and chain of custody (CoC) for forest industrial companies according FSC Principle & Criteria  and issues certificates.

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PEFC certification

The PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1999 which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests.

PEFC is a global umbrella organisation for the assessment of and mutual recognition of national forest certification schemes developed in a multi-stakeholder process. These national schemes build upon the inter-governmental processes for the promotion of sustainable forest management, a series of on-going mechanisms supported by 149 governments in the world covering 85% of the world's forest area.

PEFC has in its membership 35 independent national forest certification systems of which 23 to date have been through a rigorous assessment process involving public consultation and the use of independent assessors to provide the assessments on which mutual recognition decisions are taken by the membership. These 23 systems account for more than 200 million hectares of certified forests producing millions of tonnes of certified timber to the market place making PEFC the world's largest certification system. The other national members schemes are at various stages of development and are working towards mutual recognition under the PEFC processes.

LesTest carries out evaluations of forest management (FM) and chain of custody (CoC) for forest industrial companies according Russian forest standards and issues certificates.

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