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Cannabis dispensary business continuity test
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A continuity plan is only useful if the team has practiced the handoffs it depends on. A test should use a defined scenario, a safe boundary, named observers, and a record of what actually happened.
Choose one scenario such as POS outage, staffing gap, unavailable supplier, or facility closure. Define the start condition, critical operations, decision owners, communication path, stop conditions, and evidence to capture. The incident log workflow structures findings. Use the opening audit to test readiness checks.
Do not test by disabling production systems without approval. Record assumptions and separate exercise results from real incidents.
FEMA’s continuity guidance provides general preparedness context.
Success means the team followed the defined objective and documented gaps, not that every step was perfect. Assign an owner and due date to each corrective action.