Bahrain operator Batelco has successfully completed its annual Corporate Business Continuity Management Planned Rehearsal Exercise and Testing. The exercise is part of Batelco’s proactive approach to ensuring the delivery of crucial communications services for Bahrain in the wake of any disaster. To carry out the exercise it was simulated that a major fire occurred at the main stores that impacted Batelco’s critical services. 

As part of a set crisis management framework, Batelco’s Crisis Management Team determined the impact of the ‘crisis’, in collaboration with the Damage Assessment Recovery Team, and agreed a proposed plan to deal with the situation to ensure the continuity of crucial telecommunications services. During this simulated exercise, Batelco teams demonstrated that should the need arise, then they could together succeed not only in protecting the physical safety of employees and the local community, but also safeguard the interests of the company’s wider stakeholders, Batelco said.