15th POST-DISCUSS AND ELABORATE DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE.

DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

Disaster risk management is essential to ensure continuity of operations in the event of a catastrophe.

It concerned with:

• Prevention Planning Disaster

Frequency of Disaster Causes:

Natural disaster                       30%

Deliberate actions                   45%

Human error                            25%

Ø  A large percentage of disasters can be mitigated or avoided.

Ø  A disaster recovery plan must be implemented at the highest levels in the company.

Ø  The first step in developing a disaster recovery plan should be obtaining the support of senior management and setting up a planning committee.

• Contingency Planning Disaster

Ø  The design of the plan should include three major components.

Ø  What are these components?

v  Assess the company’s critical needs.

v  List priorities for recovery.

v  Establish recovery strategies and procedures.

Ø  A complete set of recovery strategies should take into account the following:

v  Emergency response center

v  Escalation procedures

v  Alternate processing arrangements

v  Personnel relocation and replacements plans

v  Salvage plan

v  Plan for testing and maintaining the system