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The need for companies to implement a management sys-tem capable
of ensuring business continuity (Business Continuity
Management System or BCMS) arises from an
analysis of their new needs in the so-called “Phase 2”.
These needs are not only related to safety issues but they involve
the entire company organization.
Safety is in fact just one of the aspects related to the
con-sequences of the COVID-19 outbreak: nowadays, companies are
mainly in crisis both because they suffered business interruption,
which caused severe economic damages threatening their own
survival, and because of the sudden need to adopt new working
processes (e.g. application of strict safety protocols in the
workplace, rational manage-ment of human resources, rethinking of
shifts and working hours, application of smart working and
implementation of the Internet of Things, just to name a few of the
most significant changes), which involve additional organizational
and legal compliance issues.
Therefore, companies need to build a management system suitable
to make…
