IT Professional Assessment - Business Continuity/Contingency Plan for SARS Questionnaire? Objective: To determine the impacts of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) on Hong Kong companies' business operations and to review measures taken to minimize loss caused by possible disruption due to SARS. Note: The information collected in this survey is used for statistical analysis only. To ensure that the information collected is accurate, we seek your co-operation to answer each question as precise as possible.
	1) Which country are you based in?	Hong Kong   Mainland China    Others:
	2) Which country is your company headquarters based in?	Hong Kong   Mainland China    Others:
	3) What is your company's industry nature?	Choose Industry Banking/Finance Manufacturing Chemical/Petroleum IT / Telecommunication/ ISP Training/Education Consultant Government Health Care /Medical Services Aviation / Shipping / Logistics Business Services (other than computer) Utilities Property Others
	4) The size of your company in Hong Kong	Choose Size Less than 50 50-200 200-500 500-1000 more than 1000
	5) Do you agree that your company has applied sufficient measures to protect her staff against SARS?	Choose One Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree No comment
	6) What is the degree of your company business operation being affected by SARS?	Choose One Very much affected Much affected Moderately affected Slightly affected Not affected No comment
	7) How well do you think your company handles the SARS contingency?	Choose One Very Bad Bad Fairly OK Good Excellent No comment
	8) What contingency measures does your company take to handle SARS? (Press Ctrl and click to select more than 1)	Do nothing Separate staff to work from different office/recovery site Split workforces into shifting groups Work from Home Transfer function overseas or Relocate staff overseas Cut down trips, meetings and gatherings Employ technology for meetings, e.g. tele/video-conferencing Shut down operation at the infected area Have medical staff standby Enforce leaves to pregnant staff and suspected SARS patients Others, please specify:
	9 a)Does your company have a general continuity/contingency plan for critical business operations?	Yes   No (Skip to Question 10)
	9 b)Does the general continuity/contingency plan(s) of your company include the following elements? (select all applicable)	Names and contact list of staff Defined roles and responsibilities in the activation of contingency plan Defined maximum downtime for critical systems Defined Incident escalation procedures Defined Management/execution team of the plan Backup Personnel Work at home or alternate site Back up site arrangement Off-site data backup arrangement External support Contacts list of Critical business partner (vendor/customer)
	10 a)Did your company have any suspected or confirmed SARS case?	Yes   No (Skip to Question 11)
	10 b)After SARS being identified in your company, how soon did your company activate the SARS Contingency?	Choose One Within 8 hours Within 24 hours 1 - 3 days 1 week 2 weeks Never
	11 a)What are your comments on the continuity/contingency plan of your company in response to SARS, for example, the good things and the problems/issues?
	11 b)What do you think can be improved in the continuity/contingency plan of your company? Please specify.
	12 a)Apart from the company continuity/contingency plan(s), what other departmental specific measures have been employed in response to SARS?
	12 b)If there are such departmental specific measures, what are your comments towards them?
	12 c)If there are such departmental specific measures, what do you think can be improved?
	12.) Tell us about yourself : (optional)	Gender: Male Female Job Title: Email: You are not required to leave your particulars. If you leave your details, a copy of results will be email to you.
	Thank you for completing the survey! This survey is conducted by Business Continuity Planning Asia, Professional Information Security Association (HK) and Special Interest Group in Security and Information Integrity (SG) All rights reserved.
	Organizers:     Business Continuity Planning Asia   Professional Information Security Association   Business Continuity Group   Singapore Computer Society   Special Interest Group in Security and Information inteGrity