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title: Crisis events
description: Managing a crisis event in BCM UIB Workspace helps you to minimize the downtime of critical business functions and processes across your organization. It is also used to minimize the financial, reputation, legal, and regulatory impact during a crisis event.
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# Crisis events

Managing a crisis event in BCM UIB Workspace helps you to minimize the downtime of critical business functions and processes across your organization. It is also used to minimize the financial, reputation, legal, and regulatory impact during a crisis event.

## Steps involved in creating a crisis event

Creating a crisis event includes these steps:

-   BCM program manager creates a crisis event either from the Home page or the Crisis events record page in the List view of the BCM UIB Workspace.
-   BCM program manager adds additional details for the crisis event such as an asset, plan, and event task.
-   BCM program manager submits the event task related to the exercise event for an approval.
-   Assigned BCM program manager reviews the details on the event task and approves the event.
-   Crisis event is moved to the **Approved** state. An approved crisis event is moved to the **Archived** state later.
-   BCM program manager can generate the PDF of the details and save a copy for reference.

## Creating a crisis event in Business Continuity Workspace

If you are the BCM program manager, you can create a crisis event in Business Continuity Workspace by using one of the options:

-   You can navigate to the **Crisis events** tab in the Home page and select **Report crisis** as shown in the example.

    \[Omitted image "crisis-events-homepage.png"\] Alt text: Crisis events tab in the Home page.

    For the description of the cards and action buttons in the **Crisis events** tab of the Home page, see [Home page view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/home-page-uib-ws.md).

-   You can also navigate to the List view and select **New** in the Crisis events records.

To create a crisis event in Business Continuity Workspace, see [Structured workflows for Crisis events](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/perform-tasks-to-manage-crisis-events.md).