Why Your Business Needs a Hurricane Plan?
- Planning is the BEST investment you can make in your business to protect future revenue and profits.
- Hurricanes are a business disruption you can prepare for.
- It doesn’t matter if you are a single person operation or a 100 employee business. A written plan of attack will reduce the amount of stress and anxiety that a hurricane disaster brings and help keep the focus on moving forward rather than what was lost.
By Failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail
– Benjamin Franklin
How to Create a Hurricane Plan?
- Set aside the time.
- Time needs to be scheduled.
- Time needs to be free from distractions.
- This kind of planning seems overwhelming to do all at once. Consider short bursts like 2 hours every Saturday morning.
- Assess.
- What can happen and how does it impacts different parts of your business?
- Where are your businesses vulnerabilities and what impact does it have on your employees, customers, business assets and business functions.
- A few assets and vulnerabilities at risk to consider:
- People
- Property
- Revenue interruption
- Supply chain interruption
- Information and Intellectual Property
- Contractual obligations
- Regulatory requirements
- Reputational harm
- Environmental impact
- Create a written action plan
- How will assets and vulnerabilities be protected?
- Fortified
- Removed from the path of danger
- Insurance (Property Insurance)
- Who is responsible implementation?
- Are they responsible for parts or the whole?
- Chain of command?
- What are they going to do?
- When do they need to implement?
- Pre storm vs Post storm
- How will assets and vulnerabilities be protected?
- Communicate the plan!
- Employees
- Landlord or Neighbors
- Vendors
- Customers
Available Resources to Create a Plan
Available Resources Emergency Information
How to use Your Hurricane Plan as a Template?
- Once you’ve assessed, written and communicated one plan. It is not difficult to modify it for other events that can interrupt your business.
- Other events may require similar action plan
- Easier to determine the types of events that may need different procedures.
