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Disaster Planning For Businesses
Checklist
Take Photos or videos of your business facilities, inside and out, to help substantiate any insurance claim
Assemble essential documents (vendor list, customer list, employee data, insurance policies, financial records, and licenses) and place them in storage outside of your facility in waterproof and damage resistant containers
Have the possibility of cash available (a regional power outage or disaster will also impact the electronic banking institutions)
Check the safety of your building facilities (interior and exterior) on a regular basis
Have generators and fuel available and maintained on a regular basis
Make your employees aware of
Reporting emergencies to 911 and superiors
Evacuation procedures and routes
First aid kit’s (location and usage)
Fire hoses and extinguishers
Turn off valves for gas, electricity and water
Explosion at Shell Refineri, Hamburg, Germany, May 1989
In the event of a disaster, have you:
made a plan for how you will communicate with your vendors, employees and customers?
created backup alternatives for computer operations and procedures?
prepared a plan on how to get back in business?
created a list with qualified disaster experts who can help you ?
been educated on how to handle government investigations (OSHA, PD)?
considered how to handle the media?
considered how you will deal with incident victims and their families?
the experience to handle insurance and financial matters?
Hotel business after the 1940 earthquake in Imperial Valley, california
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