Disaster Planning and Recovery: A Guide for Facility Professionals

The focus of Disaster Planning and Recovery: A Guide for Facility Professionals is to assist readers in planning for all the vital factors and imperative considerations essential in enhancing the likelihood of their organization's continuity and survival when impacted by an out-of-course event: planning to prevent disasters, planning to reduce the likelihood of disasters, planning to deal with disasters and planning to recover after a disaster has affected the organization.

Disaster Planning and Recovery: A Guide for Facility Professionals is the only complete, hands-on guide to disaster planning.  It provides proven strategies, tools and techniques for helping companies plan for, cope with and recover from cataclysmic events. Internationally recognized business continuity expert Alan M. Levitt tells you what you need to know to avoid having natural and man-made disasters become business disasters. You'll find out how to:

• Create an effective plan in advance
• Reduce the likelihood of disasters
• Maintain functioning when disaster strikes
• Mobilize staff safely and efficiently during an emergency
• Reduce costs of and recovery time following an out-of-course event
• Work effectively with key departments, including IT, HR maintenance
• Minimize stress on staff members

Earthquakes, floods, fires, tornadoes . . . there isn't much you can do to stop them from happening, but there are steps you can take to prevent natural and man-made disasters from turning into business disasters. And that is what this book is all about: minimizing the damage done to your business by cataclysmic external events. The only complete, practical guide of its kind, Disaster Planning and Recovery: A Guide for Facility Professionals shows facility professionals how to prepare for, cope with, and rebound from a disaster.