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Creating a Disaster Preparedness Plan – Implementation

Disaster Preparedness

The Implementation phase is critical, as its effectiveness determines how well an organization responds to and recovers from a disaster.

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Creating a Disaster Preparedness Plan – Testing & Improving

Disaster Preparedness

Testing is vital to an organization’s preparedness plan because it reveals weaknesses, gaps in resources and other opportunities for improvement before a real event occurs.

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Disaster Recovery: Developing a Plan For Your Business

Disaster Preparedness

Unfortunately, small businesses are usually very poorly equipped to handle major disasters such as fires, floods, and storms. Small business owners often have enough on their plate without having to worry about planning for a natural or man-made disaster. According to a recent poll by the National Federation of Independent Business, almost forty percent of small businesses experience disaster at some time; ten percent man-made and thirty percent natural. But what steps can you, a small business owner, take to ensure a man-made or natural disaster doesn't mean the end of your business? The answer to that is simple; develop a disaster recovery plan, and develop it now.

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How Food Processing Facilities Should Respond after Flood Damage

Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Temporary Climate Solutions, Food and Pharma

Eliminating excess moisture is a battle many food processing facilities face on a daily basis. When an organization experiences flood damage, time and desiccant air drying are important to prevent threats such as condensation or mold. Awareness of the effects of condensation in a facility, and what to do after experiencing flood damage, you can resume normal operations quickly and safely.

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Archive Preservation Water & Fire Damage

Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Document Recovery

It is essential that businesses, museums, libraries, schools, and other such institutions properly store their most valuable and important business and historical archives. Imagine a world in which all documented information was lost every time an institution experienced a flood, fire, or mold outbreak! Historical texts and other valuable books and documents would never get passed down for future generations to learn from and enjoy. History would have to be constantly rewritten, and society as a whole wouldn’t have progressed as it has. The best way for institutions to prevent document and archive loss is to implement storage techniques that will protect valuable articles against such catastrophes as flood or mold outbreaks.

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