- Make a list of the vulnerabilities and potential types of disasters (fire, flood, tornado, etc) that can occur and how your business would respond differently to being displaced for a week, a month, or longer
- Determine alternate locations for your business to operate if you are displaced from your current building
- Create and maintain an inventory of property
- Read your insurance policies carefully. Read the fine print so you know what is and is not covered
- Have an emergency preparedness kit ready
- Identify essential staff who are core to the operations of the business and keep a list of their phone numbers (home, work, pager, cell) and e-mail addresses that can be accessed by employees from several locations (home, Internet, etc.)
- Devise an emergency communications plan that outlines how your business will communicate with employees, customers, vendors and other key external contacts in the days following a disaster. Keep duplicates of personnel, payroll, payables and receivables and other essential records at an off-site location
- Determine who will manage the company if key leaders are unavailable
What other checklist items do you recommend?
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