Business Continuity Management System

The Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) board of directors have decided to develop and implement a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to help provide efficient and reliable social insurance and protection services, and to achieve its objectives through:
 

• Ensuring the continuous performance or quick resumption of essential insurance services (registration, contribution collection and inspection), and support operations to beneficiaries during an emergency.
   
• Reducing or mitigating any disruption of insurance services.
   
• Protecting, preventing loss and minimizing damage to life, property and other assets.
   
• Establishing and implementing a thoroughly documented Business Continuity Management System that has the necessary plans and processes in place.
   
• The ability to proactively identify the consequences of business interruption.
   

A BCMS is required  especially with the increasing number of natural and other threats in the world and particularly in the region, such as:
 

1. Disruption of the power supply or telecommunications.
    
2. IT  failure or corruption of systems and databases.
    
3. Human error, sabotage or strike.
    
4. Information security-risk hacking, internal breaches.
    
5. Social unrest or terrorist attacks in the region.
    
6. Fire.
    
7. Natural disasters: floods, earthquakes, hurricanes.