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Do your policies and procedures include a disaster recovery or emergency action plan? What happens when a natural disaster, power outage or other unplanned event occurs?
About 40% – 60% of businesses never reopen following a disaster, according to the Small Business Administration, meaning an emergency action plan plays an essential role in helping businesses recover and continue.
The first step in building a plan is to create policies for disaster recovery and then define detailed procedures for each policy. All paper files — not just your policies and procedures — should be converted to electronic files when possible, and stored on secure servers.
You’ll want to ensure that you involve and get input from your team in creating these policies and procedures, as well as have upper management approve them.
Also make sure that your policies and procedures address:
People
Physical Equipment & Facilities
Technology & Data
According to ISO standards, disaster recovery plans should not only include the above information, but also the purpose and scope of the plan and document history. Document history needs to include: dates of revisions, as well as details about what revisions were made and who approved the revisions.
When you’re looking to create an emergency action plan or reevaluate and refine your current one, consider using ConvergePoint’s Policy Management Software to streamline the creation, distribution, management and storage of your plan’s policies and procedures:
Next step: Protect your policy and procedure files by storing them in one central depository, and not on paper, with Policy Management Software. Plus, see how you can quickly get your employees up-to-speed on important disaster recovery policies.
After investing time and resources creating these policies, make sure employees read, understand and apply them to their daily job responsibilities! How? Read the Guide on How to Ensure Employee Accountability & Compliance through Effective Policy Management.
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