MAKE A DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN

No business can risk operating without a disaster recovery plan. Interruptions from major disasters could have a dramatic impact---both directly and indirectly---on your business. Your building may sustain severe damage, your suppliers’ inventory may be destroyed, transportation routes may be cut off, employees can’t come to work and much more.

When developing your disaster recovery plan, consider three components:

• Human resources - How will a disaster affect your employees, customers and workplace?

• Physical resources - How will you do business if the area around your facility is closed or streets are impassable?

• Business continuity – What will you need to serve your customers even if your facility is closed and you have to move?

PLAN AHEAD

1. Identify which natural and technological hazards occur or might occur in your area.

2. Schedule a Red Cross workplace preparedness training for your team.

3. Develop a disaster response team and disaster plan for each worksite.

4. Inventory disaster preparedness supplies.

5. Network with others in your building or block, to develop contingency management plans.

6. Gather information from local risk management associations or chapters.

7. Develop a business continuity or recovery plan – how you will get up and running following the disaster?

8. Get trained in First Aid, CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use.

9. Implement an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) program to respond to cardiac arrest – one of the leading causes of death in our country.

For more information on workplace preparedness, disaster recovery planning or training, please contact us at

(570) 207 - 0100 or BePrepared@neparc.org