3 Tips to Prepare Your Business for a Natural Disaster

Instead of grouping all procedures together in one overwhelming document, break checklists and protocols down into specific, intuitive stages to reduce confusion and ensure that no tasks are overlooked or misunderstood. Try using subsections like pre-disaster shutdown (powering down, labeling, and protecting or relocating equipment), pre-disaster equipment check (checking batteries, forwarding phone numbers, locking up backup tapes and software), post-disaster reboot (inspecting equipment, setting up computers, testing connections and starting generators) and testing/returning to normal (getting individual workstations ready for use again).