5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
Top management must assign and communicate the responsibilities and authorities for the roles the BCMS depends on, and must specifically assign responsibility and authority for ensuring the BCMS conforms to the standard and for reporting BCMS performance back to top management.
Source: ISO 22301:2019, 5.3. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open ISO 22301:2019 in the compliance library.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Named reporting line and evidence of performance reporting to top management · Document repository
- Evidence the assignments were communicated · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Role descriptions or a responsibility matrix covering BCMS roles · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Named individual accountable for BCMS conformity · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Roles assigned in a matrix that the holders have never seen
- Conformity accountability and performance reporting rolled into one unfunded part time role
- Deputies undefined, so the BCMS has a single point of failure in its own governance
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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