During an emergency
Emergencies do not have a time frame or a set schedule, they can either be a slow burn emergency such as flu pandemic, or fast-burn such as a flood or power failure. It is important as an organisation that you recognise early on which time-frame your response may be required for.
90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut within 2 years
Considerations when you respond
You may now be in the middle of an emergency, with the members of your management team to discuss ways to help your organisation to recover from the disruption.
Consider the following:
- start a log of events, decisions and actions
- activate your business continuity plan
- staff – who will be required, what will they do?
- premises – where can you relocate to
- providers – what do you need, where can you get it from?
- services/products – what is key to your business?
- communications – public image and stakeholders
