Question

What are some of the lessons learned by major organizations after a major disaster such as a major hurricane, earthquake, snowstorm, power outage and how do you use them to convince your firm to develop some type of plan?

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Answer 1

Lessons learned after a natural calamity by manjor organisations

Designing a employees' personal safety plan is a must for the organisations. It should also include safety mock drills to test the preparedness of the employees to negotiate a sudden onset of disaster. Business continuity plan is also important. It must include the standard operating procedure during disasters, line of communication to be followed and a checklist to be followed, should a disaster strike. Another aspect of preparedness should be physical and financial protection of the company's assets from the probable impacts of the disaster. This might include insuring the physical assets and employees, reinforcing the buildings and equipments against impact, and investing in disaster information systems to be prepared better and minimise the damages.

The preparedness plan must include significant research to identify the probabilities and anticipated impact of disasters on the facility, estimated losses in case of occurrence, cost of preventive methods and a detailed cost benefit analysis is essential to convince the management of the necessity of such plan. The plans are specific and unique for every industry, which is impacted in different ways as compared to others.