Essential Services
What is Essential Services?
Critical business functions and operations that must be maintained during disruptions to ensure organizational survival and stakeholder obligations.
Terms that appear alongside essential services
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as essential services. The number is how many controls name both.
- cybersecurity 4 shared controls
- incident reporting 2 shared controls
- gdpr 2 shared controls
- business continuity 2 shared controls
- crisis management 2 shared controls
- data protection 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern essential services
What the standards actually require on essential services
Requirements naming essential services across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Under WHS Regulation 304, before excavation is directed or allowed to start, whoever manages or controls the workplace has to take all reasonable steps to obtain up-to-date information on underground essential services in the parts of the workplace to be excav...
australia-model-code-of-practice-excavation-work::3.6e · 3.6 Obtain current underground essential services information before work starts (WHS Regulation 304) →The principal contractor must manage the risks associated with the storage, movement and disposal of construction materials and waste at the workplace, the storage of plant not in use, traffic in the vicinity of the workplace that may be affected by the constr...
australia-model-code-of-practice-construction-work::7b · 7 Principal contractor manages materials, stored plant, traffic and essential services risks (r 315) →Automatic changeover to the emergency supply must take no longer than safety allows for the load (classes: no-break; short break within 1 s; medium break within 30 s; long break over 30 s).
as-nzs-3010-2017-electrical-installations-generating-sets::3.5-changeover · 3.5 Sets supplying safety and essential services: changeover time and grouped switchgear →The principal contractor manages under Part 3.1 the risks associated with storage, movement and disposal of construction materials and waste, storage of plant not in use, traffic near the workplace that may be affected by the construction work, and essential s...
australia-model-work-health-and-safety-regulations::r315 · r 315 Manage materials, idle plant, traffic and essential services risks →An organization supplying essential services (for example water, electricity, gas, sewerage, wastewater, drainage or communications) should: not cut off supply for non-payment before giving the consumer or consumer group a chance to ask for a reasonable period...
iso-26000-2010::6.7.8 · 6.7.8 Consumer issue 6: Access to essential services →Under WHS Regulation 40 a PCBU must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the layout lets people enter, leave and move safely in normal conditions and emergencies; work areas have space to work safely;
australia-model-code-of-practice-managing-the-work-environment-and-facilities::2.0 · 2 General workplace facilities: layout, space, floors, lighting, ventilation, heat and cold, essential services →Questions people ask about essential services
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