UC Ready – Mission Continuity Planning
The University of California constantly faces a variety of risks. Efforts revolve around preventing, preparing for, mitigating, responding to, and recovering from negative events. If the University is better prepared to handle everyday events, then the University will be ready to face the unimaginable. UC is creating a common framework to make UC "event-ready."
To support this endeavor, we are proud to announce the UC Ready continuity planning tool. This is a systemwide program that enables all of our campuses, medical centers and national laboratory to better prepare to meet the challenges of resuming business operations after a major event occurs.
Such major events can be:
- All encompassing (major earthquake, pandemic illness, etc.)
- Localized (Fire in a building, basement flood, etc.)
- Personal (Failure of a hard drive)
Whatever the event, our goal is to become "event ready" so that we can continue our teaching, research, healthcare and service mission with minimal interruption. The UC Ready continuity tool is an on-line program that allows all departments to easily produce a continuity plan that identifies both strategies for coping with events when they occur and preparations that can be done in advance.
View a demo of the UC Ready planning tool.
Funding for Staff
A Business Continuity Planner and an Administrative Assistant are the minimum staff needed at each location to effectively implement Restarting UC. A matching fund of up to $100,000 per location is available through UCOP.
For Funding/Program Requirements and to apply for matching funds, complete the Restarting UC – Business Continuity Program Application for Matching Funds for Staffing (pdf).
Once completed, send your application to:
UC Office of the President
Office of Risk Services
Attn: Kevin Confetti
1111 Franklin Street, 10th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
UCOP Office of Risk Services
Expertise and support for the local Restarting UC staff is available through the Office of Risk Services. For assistance please contact:
Grace Crickette, Chief Risk Officer
(510) 987-9820
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Kevin Confetti, Risk Manager Workers' Compensation
(510) 987-9868
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