Is your Business Disaster Proof?
If a disaster should strike tomorrow, is your small business prepared? Having a disaster plan is a key component to your company surviving a catastrophe.
According to the Association of Small Business Development Centers, more than 1 in 4 businesses will experience a disaster in any year. Forty-three percent of those without a disaster plan never re-open, and only 29 percent are still open after two years. Emergency preparedness is easy and affordable and protects your company’s future in a crisis. Safeguard your business by following this simple checklist:
- Regularly save documents to portable devices such as flash drives and CDs.
- Scan paper copies of critical documents for electronic storage.
- Do not leave your backup data next to your regular systems.
- Use offsite storage for essential documents and records.
- Collect employee contact information including family and home phone numbers, and set up a communications plan to contact each other.
- Create a contact list for important suppliers and vendors.
- Identify your property’s vulnerabilities, such as a low flood plain or frequent power outages, and create a plan that covers these obstacles.
- Recognize critical business functions, and determine how to keep them operational after a crisis.
- Develop a plan to remain in operation if your building is unusable.
- Test the disaster plan and make modifications.
- Review your insurance coverage, noting that basic insurance does not cover flood damage.
- Examine your policy’s business interruption insurance.
- Compile a disaster kit for your business with a flashlight, radio, camera, emergency contact list, tools, bottled water, and a first aid kit.
When a disaster strikes, you cannot afford to have your IT systems down for days or weeks. You need to be serving clients and customers throughout the catastrophe.
CommTech has re•Defined disaster planning to help keep your business functioning and operational during and after a disaster. As the most trusted name in IT in the Greater New Orleans region, let CommTech help you work smarter, faster and better with proper disaster recovery planning.
