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ISO 22301 certification in Los Angeles

Achieve ISO 22301 certification in Los Angeles with Sterling: 8,100+ client engagements in 60+ countries, 20+ years.

  • Accredited certification
  • New York office team
  • Effivity software included
  • Academy training included

Clients include

  • Allianz
  • Emirates Flight Catering
  • Etihad Rail
  • Haier
  • Whirlpool
  • Emerson
In short

ISO 22301 certification in Los Angeles at a glance

Disruption in Los Angeles is rarely hypothetical. A terminal stoppage, a rail delay or a damaged warehouse near San Pedro can ripple through importers, forwarders and retailers, and the Port of Los Angeles runs seven container terminals that many businesses depend on. Hospitals and professional-service firms across the metro area face their own version: people and systems that must be available when needed. ISO 22301 gives a business a method: understand critical activities through impact analysis, choose recovery strategies, write and exercise plans, and review them regularly. Sterling builds the system with Los Angeles clients from its New York office and runs the exercises that expose weak points. An accredited certification body audits for the certificate.

Why here

Why ISO 22301 in Los Angeles

  • Port-side operators and forwardersA disrupted terminal, rail link or warehouse delays customers across the supply chain.
  • Metro-area hospitals and service firmsLarge health and professional services workforces depend on services staying available.

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Local drivers

What drives ISO 22301 in Los Angeles

Demand is buyer-led: ISO 22301 is requested through customer, tender or supplier terms rather than by a Los Angeles authority or zone rule.

Requirements

What ISO 22301 requires

Strip away the vocabulary and ISO 22301 requires a company to prove six things about how it keeps operating when something goes wrong.

You know what must keep runningA business impact analysis identifies your priority activities and how quickly each one must be resumed after disruption.
Leadership owns continuityTop management sets continuity policy and objectives, assigns roles and backs the programme with people and budget.
You assessed what could disrupt youRisks of disruption to priority activities, and to the resources they depend on, are assessed and treated.
Plans are written and readyResponse and recovery plans, and a defined incident response structure, exist for the scenarios that matter most to you.
You have tested themPlans are exercised, and lessons from exercises and real incidents are fed back into them.
You keep the programme currentContinuity performance is evaluated, internal audits and management reviews take place, and the programme improves over time.

The detail is on the global hub: ISO 22301 explained →

How Sterling delivers

How Sterling delivers ISO 22301 in Los Angeles

Served from Sterling's New York office; Sterling runs impact analyses and recovery exercises with Los Angeles teams. One team carries the work from scoping to certificate.

Included in every engagement
  • End to end, from one team
  • Effivity ISO & GRC software
  • Preferential Sterling Academy access, with complimentary awareness training for your people
  • Internal auditor training for your audit team, as applicable to your standard
  • Vulnerability assessment on ISMS engagements

The Sterling Promise: 100% on-time completion, 100% success, 8,100+ client engagements.Sterling does not certify. Certification decisions stay with independent bodies.

Law and accreditation

Regulations and accreditation for ISO 22301 in the US

The laws, regulators and accreditation route for ISO 22301 apply across the US, Los Angeles included. They are set out on the country page: ISO 22301 certification in the US →

Related

Standards Los Angeles organisations combine with ISO 22301

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ISO 22301 in Los Angeles: questions clients ask

Why is ISO 22301 relevant to logistics firms around the Port of Los Angeles?

A stoppage at a terminal, yard or warehouse affects every customer relying on that route. ISO 22301 helps a firm identify critical activities, set recovery priorities and test its plans. Buyers can then see how the firm will keep serving them during a disruption.

Does ISO 22301 cover earthquakes?

It covers any disruption through a management system rather than a single scenario, so Los Angeles businesses can plan for quake damage, power loss, cyber incidents or supplier failure under one framework. It does not predict events, and the plans are only credible if they are exercised.

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Next step

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Sources

  1. Port-led trade, logistics and warehousing — portoflosangeles.org (accessed 8 Oct 2026)
  2. Health services and professional services — bls.gov (accessed 8 Oct 2026)

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