Hurricane Season is HERE NOW. Here’s the New Planning Tool You’re Going to Need!


HURRICANE SEASON IS HERE. ARE YOU READY?

YOU WILL BE WITH THIS NEW PLANNING TEMPLATE!

If your business faces a serious flood or hurricane threat, this “master of disaster” toolkit helps you quickly develop a clear, comprehensive, and actionable plan…

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Hurricane Season is HERE NOW. Here’s the New Planning Tool You’re Going to Need!


HURRICANE SEASON IS HERE. ARE YOU READY?

YOU WILL BE WITH THIS NEW PLANNING TEMPLATE!

If your business faces a serious flood or hurricane threat, this “master of disaster” toolkit helps you quickly develop a clear, comprehensive, and actionable plan…

  • Protect in place or relocate employees to alternate locations to conduct mission-critical operations — and communicate with them before, during and after a flood or hurricane.
  • Reduce any downtime that affects cash flow, customer satisfaction, or supply chain partnerships.
  • Minimize damage to facilities, files, IT systems, and other equipment.

 Template for Hurricane and Flood Business Continuity Planning:

Enhancing Your Organization’s Resilience

2nd Edition

 By Douglas M. Henderson

 ISBN 978-1-931332-60-6, ©2012, $49

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This practical package contains 190 pages and 5 files teeming with extensively field-tested and editable templates, forms, and checklists you can customize for your organization, including:

  • Standard Business Continuity Plan (BCP) language that enables you to easily review, edit and customize text.
  • Author’s Notes and easy-to-follow Update Instructions that guide you in selecting what to include and why.
  • Planning templates written in easy-to-edit Microsoft Word.
  • Step-by-step guidance through all phases of developing a comprehensive Hurricane and Flood BCP:
    • Hurricane & Flood BCP features 12 defined steps (before, during and after disaster periods) and a detailed analysis of applicable strategies and procedures necessary to execute a successful business recovery.
    • Facilities Department Plan features execution steps and extensive checklists of supplies and services, plus building preparation and recovery steps.
    • Human Resources Plan provides detailed procedures for maintaining communications with employees at multiple remote locations and restoring the workforce after a disaster.
    • Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan maintains critical technology and communication support services from remote locations.
    • Employee Preparation and Response Plan provides critical personal preparation information and pre-positioning in remote locations.

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Just open the easy-to-use Microsoft Word template and follow it page-by-page, editing and customizing it to reflect the specific needs of your organization. Instructions on how to fill in your company’s information are color-coded.

Author Doug Henderson is a business continuity/emergency management consultant, and, as a long-time Florida resident, has created hurricane plans for businesses facing Florida’s infamous Hurricane Season. Doug distills his extensive experience to share tools and tips to spare you the costly mistakes that can result from trial and error.

In a short time, you’ll create your comprehensive, tailored hurricane and flood plan, fully customized to your own business. You’ll feel confident, too, that your plan complies with current industry standards and best practices. The template also gives you a no-fuss method to update your plan or expand it to meet new business needs.

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Douglas M. Henderson FSA, CBCP, is President of Disaster Management, Inc. and has 20+years of consulting experience in all areas of Business Continuity and Emergency Response Management. Doug’s clients include Discovery Channel Latin America, Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), University of Miami, and many other organizations of all sizes. He is co-author of two books: the newly published college textbook (co-authored with Kurt J. Engemann) Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience and Is Your Business Ready for the Next Disaster? Doug has also developed a number of BC templates, including Continuity of Operations Plan for Colleges and Universities; Quick and Easy Business Continuity Plan for Your Small Business; and Template for Business Impact Analysis.

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Hurricane Season is HERE NOW. Here’s the New Planning Tool You’re Going to Need!


HURRICANE SEASON IS HERE. ARE YOU READY?

YOU WILL BE WITH THIS NEW PLANNING TEMPLATE!

If your business faces a serious flood or hurricane threat, this “master of disaster” toolkit helps you quickly develop a clear, comprehensive, and actionable plan…

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Hurricane Season is Only 11 Days Away. Here’s the New Tool You’re Going to Need!


ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON STARTS JUNE 1, 2012. ARE YOU READY?

YOU WILL BE WITH THIS NEW TEMPLATE!

 

If your business faces a serious flood or hurricane threat, this “master of disaster” toolkit helps you quickly develop a clear, comprehensive, and actionable plan to…

  • Protect in place or relocate employees to alternate locations to conduct mission-critical operations — and communicate with them before, during and after a flood or hurricane.
  • Reduce any downtime that affects cash flow, customer satisfaction, or supply chain partnerships.
  • Minimize damage to facilities, files, IT systems, and other equipment.

 Template for Hurricane and Flood Business Continuity Planning:

Enhancing Your Organization’s Resilience

2nd Edition

 By Douglas M. Henderson

 ISBN 978-1-931332-60-6, ©2012, $49

This practical package contains 190 pages and 5 files teeming with extensively field-tested and editable templates, forms, and checklists you can customize for your organization, including:

  • Standard Business Continuity Plan (BCP) language that enables you to easily review, edit and customize text.
  • Author’s Notes and easy-to-follow Update Instructions that guide you in selecting what to include and why.
  • Planning templates written in easy-to-edit Microsoft Word.
  • Step-by-step guidance through all phases of developing a comprehensive Hurricane and Flood BCP:
    • Hurricane & Flood BCP features 12 defined steps (before, during and after disaster periods) and a detailed analysis of applicable strategies and procedures necessary to execute a successful business recovery.
    • Facilities Department Plan features execution steps and extensive checklists of supplies and services, plus building preparation and recovery steps.
    • Human Resources Plan provides detailed procedures for maintaining communications with employees at multiple remote locations and restoring the workforce after a disaster.
    • Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan maintains critical technology and communication support services from remote locations.
    • Employee Preparation and Response Plan provides critical personal preparation information and pre-positioning in remote locations.

 ——————————————————

Just open the easy-to-use Microsoft Word template and follow it page-by-page, editing and customizing it to reflect the specific needs of your organization. Instructions on how to fill in your company’s information are color-coded.

Author Doug Henderson is a business continuity/emergency management consultant, and, as a long-time Florida resident, has created hurricane plans for businesses facing Florida’s infamous Hurricane Season. Doug distills his extensive experience to share tools and tips to spare you the costly mistakes that can result from trial and error.

In a short time, you’ll create your comprehensive, tailored hurricane and flood plan, fully customized to your own business. You’ll feel confident, too, that your plan complies with current industry standards and best practices. The template also gives you a no-fuss method to update your plan or expand it to meet new business needs.

  ——————————————————

Douglas M. Henderson FSA, CBCP, is President of Disaster Management, Inc. and has 20+years of consulting experience in all areas of Business Continuity and Emergency Response Management. Doug’s clients include Discovery Channel Latin America, Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), University of Miami, and many other organizations of all sizes. He is co-author of two books: the newly published college textbook (co-authored with Kurt J. Engemann) Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience and Is Your Business Ready for the Next Disaster? Doug has also developed a number of BC templates, including Continuity of Operations Plan for Colleges and Universities; Quick and Easy Business Continuity Plan for Your Small Business; and Template for Business Impact Analysis.

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Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery


When flood waters threatened to breach the banks of the Brisbane River recently, the State Library of Queensland, Australia looked to be one of its first casualties.

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Businesses asked to take part in major flood exercise


Businesses – large and small – in England and Wales are being invited to test their resilience to flooding in one of the biggest national emergency exercises ever to take place.

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Five Ways to Improve Business Survival Chances after a Hurricane


For many businesses located in tropical and subtropical climates, Hurricanes present the worst-case disaster scenario. In addition to disabling or destroying business assets, as a community-wide disaster, hurricanes can disable employee homes, disrupt transportation, power and communication infrastructure.

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Disaster preparedness and recovery for flood disasters: What DR planners need to know


Recent flood disasters in New England, Central Europe, Brazil and Australia are reminders that this type of disaster poses a clear and present threat to businesses regardless of geography or boundaries. This tip tackles the subject of disaster preparedness and recovery specifically pertaining to floods.

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BC/DR Challenges in a Hurricane Zone


Some business continuity demands are universal, but others vary depending on where you are. This first part in an ongoing series,  from CSO Securfity & Risk takes a look at what’s at stake and what’s in place for two companies faced with the worsening threats posed by hurricane zones.

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Disaster recovery plans pay off in flood


“Long before the water started flowing inside the Sears store on McBrien Road in East Ridge, Tennessee, employees already were moving merchandise and setting up barricades.”

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UK government publishes draft Flood and Water Management Bill


The draft United Kingdom Flood and Water Management Bill, designed to improve how the country prepares for and responds to flood emergencies and to better protect water supplies during drought, has been published for public consultation by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.

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