Assess Your Laboratory Information Resilience

When an incident occurs, is the necessary information usually spread across several systems, folders, emails or people?

Is it common to have several versions of the same document or file circulating at the same time?

Does the relationship between samples, results, documentation and decisions mainly depend on staff knowledge?

Can critical laboratory information be quickly located by different people within the team?

Are there processes where relevant information is mainly shared by email or informal conversations?

Is it easy to reconstruct what happened in a process carried out several months ago?

Do changes made to critical documents or data leave any kind of accessible history?

Does the laboratory clearly know what information could be lost after a serious incident?

Are backups part of a supervised process and not only an automatic one?

Would the temporary absence of a key person significantly make it difficult to locate or interpret important information?

Are there important procedures that are carried out “as usual” but without truly up-to-date documentation?

Is the laboratory’s historical information organized consistently over time?