Continuity Planning and Recovery Strategy Basics
Learn how to keep essential services running when disruption strikes.
Start Course Now →When systems fail, floods hit, or key staff are unavailable, organisations need a plan that keeps essential work moving. This beginner-friendly course walks you through building, implementing, and testing a continuity plan, so you understand the practical steps behind preparing for service interruption. It is for anyone new to continuity planning who wants a clear, working grounding in the essentials.
Walk out able to actually help.
You can pinpoint the essential functions, resources, and records your organisation depends on.
You can develop and write down a continuity plan that others can follow under pressure.
You understand recovery strategies and manual workarounds that keep work possible during disruption.
You can run exercises and train staff so the plan stays reliable over time.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Continuity Planning
Why continuity planning matters and an overview of the frameworks organisations use to structure it.
Building a Continuity Plan
Getting started, identifying essential functions and resources, then developing and documenting the plan.
Implementing Recovery Strategies
Making work possible during disruption, including recovery strategy essentials and manual workarounds.
Testing, Training, and Continuous Improvement
Plan testing and exercises, plus training staff and improving the plan over time.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Four guided modules with focused lessons
- Practical continuity planning grounding
- Around three hours of learning
- Certificate of completion