Download or read book Disaster Preparedness Guide for Small Business written by Becky Crow and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step guide to prepare the small business for a possible disaster. Includes risk analysis, hazard planning, emergency response, recovery information, workplace violence prevention and employee family preparedness.

Download or read book Prepare for the Worst Plan for the Best written by Donna R. Childs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses presents you with proven guidelines for your small or midsized business to effectively prepare for catastrophes.

Download or read book Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery written by Donna R. Childs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve business efficiency, eliminate day-to-day mishaps, and prepare for the worst-with effective disaster contingency planning Working in lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2001, Donna Childs became keenly aware of the need for small businesses to develop disaster contingency plans and grateful that her own business had implemented such plans and would remain financially sound. Now, with the assistance of IT consultant Stefan Dietrich, she draws upon her unique experience to present proven guidelines for small and midsize businesses to effectively prepare for catastrophes in Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery: A Small Business Guide. Childs and Dietrich take small business owners through every stage of disaster planning, from preparation to response to recovery. Specific issues addressed include: * What to do if the main office location is not accessible * Getting the business up and running again * Contacting third parties * Handling insurance claims * Adequate insurance for property, business interruption losses, and workers' compensation * Rebuilding an IT infrastructure Successful planning not only can limit the damage of an unforeseen disaster but also can minimize daily mishaps-such as the mistaken deletion of files-and increase a business's overall efficiency. Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery is the only contingency guide that small business owners need to ensure their company's continued success.

Download or read book Emergency Procedures for the Small Business and Shop written by Ralph W. Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faster Disaster Recovery written by Jennifer H. Elder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protect your company’s finances in the event of a disaster In the face of an environmental or man-made disaster, it’s imperative to have a contingency plan that’s mapped out your corporation’s strategy to minimize the impact on the daily functions or life of the corporation. Successful planning not only can limit the damage of an unforeseen disaster but also can minimize daily mishaps—such as the mistaken deletion of files—and increase a business's overall efficiency. Faster Disaster Recovery provides a 10-step approach for business owners on creating a disaster recovery plan (from both natural and man-made events). Each chapter ends with thought-provoking questions that allow business owners to explore their particular situation. Covers natural events such as earthquakes and floods Provides guidance on dealing with man-made events such as terrorist attacks Offers worksheets to make your contingency plans Includes several examples throughout the book There’s no time like the present to develop a business contingency plan—and this book shows you how.

Download or read book Are You Ready written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains additional supporting materials, sample electronic slide presentations, and other resources.

Download or read book Emergency Planning for the Solo Entrepreneur written by Kathryn Hack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing a solo entrepreneur when calamity strikes are unique in the realm of disaster planning, and the only effective strategy for preventing a business failure after an unexpected major setback is to have a clearly thought-out emergency backup plan. This book guides you to being 100 percent ready for the worst-case scenario. Disasters are sudden, calamitous events that can bring about great loss and failure to a business. Some disasters can be prevented through good judgment and careful planning; others—whether "acts of God" such as flood or fire or a personal health crisis—cannot be. What will happen if the one person responsible for the day-to-day operations of a solo entrepreneurship is suddenly incapacitated and unable to manage the business? In cases of small businesses that do not have a clear backup or disaster recovery plan, the outcome is often the total failure of the business. This book is both a wakeup call and an action plan for small business owners. It will guide readers toward creating a backup system that will enable a business to "run itself" without the immediate presence of its owner—for a week, a month, or even longer. The author presents a tested strategy that has its roots in preparing for natural disasters, and replaces the all-too-common refusal to believe that bad things can and do happen with hard facts and realism. Clearly, solopreneurs cannot afford to take risks of failure when it comes to their businesses—the most important thing in their lives aside from family and health.

Download or read book Disaster Preparedness for a Small Business Or Shop written by Ralph W. Ritchie and published by Ralph Ritchie Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you seen the mass of information out there for small businesses? Google lists 2,700,000 entries for small business disasters. Much of it is government stuff.So, why did I bother writing this book? Mostly, it contains what the rest have left out. Sometimes, I think that the people who write this stuff have never been a small business owner, have never been on the receiving end of a disaster, or they lead a sterile life in some nice, cozy office.I have done the research, and this is the fifth book in our Disaster Preparedness Series. A Disaster Plan For The Small Business and Shop, which the Law says you don?t need. BUT, if there is a disaster, you are legally responsible if you don?t have one. There it is: your own genuine Catch 22. Having a written plan shows that you made an effort to protect people. Get it? Besides, that disaster is a threat to your business, too. Better now to also have a recovery plan in case Mother Nature splatters your facilities and people all over the countryside. Haven?t heard about this? You need a master plan. It?s in OUR book.

Download or read book A Safer Future written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

Download or read book Seriously Now What written by Corey Harris and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of not preparing for a crisis is 5x higher than if you prepared and created a plan in advance. Most small business owners struggle to financially recover from unexpected expenses. So, how can you bulletproof your business against an unknown future disaster? It starts with knowing your business and your people and ends with building and executing a plan that protects you and your small business. Seriously? Now What!? walks you through a series of exercises all designed to create plans to help small business owners survive the unthinkable. A downloadable companion workbook is included (instructions inside!) to provide real world examples of each exercise. Are you ready to protect your small business against disaster?

Download or read book Small Business Survival Book written by Barbara Weltman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owning a small business can be a fulfilling and financially rewarding experience, but to be successful, you must know what to do before starting a business; what to do while the business is up and running; and, most importantly, what to do when the business runs into trouble. With a combined fifty years of small business experience between them, authors Barbara Weltman and Jerry Silberman know what it takes to make it in this competitive environment, and in Small Business Survival Book, they show you how. In a clear and concise voice, Weltman and Silberman reveal twelve surefire ways to help your small business survive and thrive in today's market. With this book as your guide, you'll discover how to: * Delegate effectively * Monitor cash flow * Extend credit and stay on top of collections * Build and maintain credit and restructure your debt * Meet your tax obligations * Grow your business with successful marketing strategies * Use legal protections * Plan for catastrophe and disaster recovery Whether you're considering starting a new business or looking to improve your current venture, Small Business Survival Book has what you need to succeed.

Download or read book Disaster Planning Guide for Business and Industry written by United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Preparedness for Small Business the WORKBOOK written by Joseph Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after Emergency Preparedness for Small Business came out, it became apparent that we needed to make it still easier to build a basic survival plan and to provide for input from key employees as well as professional company advisers . . .CPAs, attorney, bankers, etc. "How do we actually get startedon building our company plan?" Now there's an answer in the form of a straight-forward, fill-in-the-blanks WORKBOOK that complements and completes the purpose of the book! We also wanted to emphasize that building a plan that works is a team endeavor . Employees have a stake in the business survival. Their livlihood is at risk. the company's advisers not only have skills and resources to offer, they don't want to lose clients. This includes attorneys, CPAs, and bankers as well as insurance agents. Workbooks give these key people easy ways to provide input. Emergency Preparedness for Small Business - THE WORKBOOK is the perfect companion for the small business owner and his or her team who are ready to pull together a useful, workable business contingency plan. Here's what to expect from THE WORKBOOK: Written by and for business people, not planning experts. Not a lot of buzzwords! User-friendly worksheets lead to custom answers to the problems raised or discussed in the book. Owner and team members are encouraged to modify, eliminate or add to the material - at their own pace -- so it accurately reflects their business. Most input comes from within the company: owner, employees and existing professional advisers (CPA, banker, insurance agent, lawyer). Throughout, examples and alerts help your team to evaluate your company's situation. With the book and now THE WORKBOOK, you'll have everything you need to assess your business needs and build a preparedness plan that serves the business, employees and employee families, and the wider community. Now there's no reason to procrastinate any longer!

Download or read book Emergency Planning and Management written by William H. Stringfield and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using this reference as your guide, you'll learn how to assess your business's vulnerability to disasters, evaluate planning considerations, preserve records, and avoid the fate of those businesses that do not prepare and ultimately do not survive. In addition, you'll learn about your federal obligations under CFR Title 29, SARA Title III, CFR Title 40, and the National Fire Protection Association. The author provides new and updated information on terrorism, federal response, workplace violence, civil disturbances, sabotage, and hazardous responder competencies. He also provides new information on insurance, loans, and the Small Business Administration; techniques for managing computer threats and viruses; and disaster planning and management contact information.

Download or read book Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals written by Susan Snedaker and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific. Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall in the Gulf Coast. Avalanche Buries Highway in Denver. Tornado Touches Down in Georgia. These headlines not only have caught the attention of people around the world, they have had a significant effect on IT professionals as well. As technology continues to become more integral to corporate operations at every level of the organization, the job of IT has expanded to become almost all-encompassing. These days, it’s difficult to find corners of a company that technology does not touch. As a result, the need to plan for potential disruptions to technology services has increased exponentially. That is what Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is: a methodology used to create a plan for how an organization will recover after a disaster of various types. It takes into account both security and corporate risk management tatics. There is a lot of movement around this initiative in the industry: the British Standards Institute is releasing a new standard for BCP this year. Trade shows are popping up covering the topic. * Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human-caused hazards, and accidental and technical hazards. * Only published source of information on the new BCI standards and government requirements. * Up dated information on recovery from cyber attacks, rioting, protests, product tampering, bombs, explosions, and terrorism.

Download or read book The Practical Preppers Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness written by Scott Hunt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to disaster preparedness from Scott Hunt, CEO of Practical Preppers and a nationally recognized preparedness expert The world we live in is an unstable one. From natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods of biblical proportions to concerns about the economic downturn and government shutdown, the hits just keep on coming. At the same time, the power grid is incredibly fragile. Our dependency on widely distributed long distance systems for power, medicine, and food makes our society susceptible to attack, whether by foreign or domestic enemies, or the weather. No matter the concern, the solutions are the same. Scott Hunt, the owner of Practical Preppers, and an experienced engineer, homesteader, and pastor, offers readers a complete and detailed guide to sustainable living. With The Practical Preppers Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness, anyone can learn how to: - Secure a water source-even in an urban area - Grow and preserve food - Set up an alternative energy supply - Maintain a comfortable shelter -including alternative cooking and sanitation methods during a long power outage - Bug out-what to include in your bug out bag and how to leave - Prepare for medical issues - Deal with security concerns Preparing for disruption of services in an emergency is a noble venture which gives peace of mind. This book will empower readers of all skill levels and resources to survive and achieve an independent, sustainable lifestyle.

Download or read book Emergency Preparedness for Small Business written by Joseph Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the odds that your small business or professional office will survive a major catastrophic event? 60%? 70%? Actually, if you have a Business Continuity Plan, history says you might experience odds like these. Certainly, you have a better than a 50/50 chance. But for small businesses without a workable, up-to-date Plan, the odds are more like 40% complete failure within the year following the event.Why? There are many reasons of course, but at least two of them are avoidable. The first is lack of a plan altogether. Without a plan you run the risk of injury or death . . . and, yes, the added risk of lawsuits for negligence. The truth is that small business executives (and that includes even single-executive professional offices) are busy. They typically don't have the time or confidence that they know enough about security issues to create a plan or even delegate it. We'll come back to how this book simplifies getting a plan done.The second reason businesses fail is because of lack of a workable plan. Even large corporate plans can overlook one key element - the anxiety employees will feel about the well-being of their families and loved ones. In major disasters where communications are disrupted or destroyed and even cell phones can't get through, employees' urge to leave work, find a way to get home, and make sure everyone is OK overshadows the need to stay and help save the business. The good news is that there are inexpensive and proven answers to both of these -- and that's what this book introduces. First, it emphasizes the value of CERT and Workplace CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training that is offered at little or no cost by FEMA and local governments. The reality is that in a major event, people get injured and die. And the bigger the event, the longer it will take for official fire and rescue teams to get to everyone. This means that where saving lives is first priority, you, your neighbors and fellow employees are the real "first responders." CERT training turns more people into effective first responders who can make a big difference for people AND for the business's survival.Next to actual life-saving efforts, communications are arguably the most important thing for you to focus on in an emergency. Crisis communications are not optional! Emergency Preparedness for Small Business approaches this challenge with a number of recommendations for setting up Communications Teams and managing the all-important contact both within the company and with the outside world. Saving lives and working as a team is a central theme and focus of this and companion books in our Disaster Survival series. The first 3 books cover how to build emergency teams in Apartment, Condominium, Manufactured (Mobile) Home as well as single family home Residential neighborhoods.The business community has a different set of challenges, of course, but the impediments to planning are pretty much the same: intimidation and procrastination, confusion and overwhelm. This book addresses those issues squarely and presents step-by-step solutions. It offers many checklists and suggested procedures. It even includes a "secret weapon" that co-author Joe Krueger learned about while creating plans as a Counterintelligence Agent during the Cold War. The authors say: "In all cases, our goal is simple -- to increase the level of preparedness and readiness to respond by building community-wide emergency response teams. We know of no other book that addresses the need to connect businesses this way with their neighborhoods and the residential neighborhoods of their employees. We have dubbed it a "wholistic" approach to disaster survival."