PREPARING YOUR BUSINESS FOR A DISASTER
Preparedness Planning For Your Business
Disaster planning and preparedness can keep your business running even when disaster strikes. Having a plan, and being able to put it into immediate action, can mean the difference between staying open to service the needs of your customers and community or shutting down for a few days.
According to https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250602/stay-business-after-disaster-planning-ahead, statistics show 25% of businesses do not reopen after disasters.
Even if the probability may be low, preparing for the disruptions such as flooding, tornadoes, wildfire, blizzards or pandemic may be pivotal to the survival of your business.
The five steps in developing a preparedness program are:
- Program Management
- Planning
- Implementation
- Testing and Exercising
- Program Improvement