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Disaster Prevention - 13 Lucky Tips for Small Business
In the face of a disaster, keep one thing in mind: If you can
live through it, so can your business - most of the time.
But you need to plan ahead.
Sadly, most small and home-based business owners won't do that.
It's a tragic way to reduce the competition. But if you choose
to prepare for disaster, you'll still BE the competition!
The enhance your chances of still being around, you need to
create a disaster preparedness plan. Even something very
simple could help greatly. The most important aspects of your
plan are to make it practical and easy to maintain.
A good disaster preparedness plan starts with disaster
prevention. General prevention is mostly good common sense.
Natural catastrophes such as wildfires, major storms and
earthquakes can quickly convert your office or facility into a
danger zone if you're not prepared. But most of the events
that destroy businesses never make the news -- things like
on-site accidents and small fires that happen somewhere every
moment of every day.
Those things are certainly disasters. But there's an even worse
disaster that happens later if you aren't ready: the unnecessary
demise of your business afterward. That's the disaster
that you can prepare for by planning ahead.
Disaster prevention steps
Here are some basic steps for safeguarding your employees and
business from unnecessary damage:
1. Pay attention to public warnings. Don't second-guess
evacuation orders. Better to err on the side of caution.
2. Establish emergency evacuation procedures.
3. Keep fire extinguishers and first aid kits on hand and
check them regularly.
4. Keep a cell phone programmed with emergency contact
and employee numbers.
5. Back up your data daily. Keep a copy offsite or in a
fire- and waterproof
safe.
6. Regularly update your insurance info: equipment,
inventory, etc. Keep a copy of this offsite (or in a safe) as
well.
7. Look for fall hazards: piled boxes, overhead
materials, and so forth. Rearrange to protect yourself and your
people from unnecessary harm.
8. Don't let debris, empty containers or recyclable
materials pile up.
9. Avoid overstocking flammable items, such as fuel or
materials with a rapid flash point (such as loose paper and
cardboard).
10. Use appropriate safety containers for flammable items.
11. Establish a firebreak around your facility if
possible, and internal firebreaks as well, such as a ten-foot
perimeter around propane tanks if you have them.
12. Keep tree branches trimmed back from structures,
equipment and inventory.
13. Try to separate equipment, inventory, and storage
items in order to mitigate the domino effect of fire spreading
to all areas of your business.
These suggestions are just a sample of what you can do to avoid
unnecessary damage. Walk through your office or facility and
imagine what could happen if it was suddenly hit by a fire or
flood. Your common sense will guide you to create a good
disaster prevention plan in order to minimize your exposure to
devastation.
(For more information on preparing your business for surviving
and recovering from disaster, please see the expanded article
series at the website listed below.)
(c) 2005 Michael Riley. All rights reserved.
About the author:
Michael Riley is a freelance business writer and editor
specializing in trade press and association publications. His
website includes expanded coverage of this topic, as well as
information on marketing your small business and improving
customer relations. http://www.bymichaelriley.com
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