When you run a business, you have a lot of things on your plate. From keeping your sales up to managing your employees and tracking your financials, it can be a challenge just to keep your head above water. Throw on top of that a disaster at your location or property damage at your place of work and you may feel like it’s all just too much to handle. However, if you’re prepared, your business can continue functioning at a near normal level in spite of certain misfortunes. To learn how, here are three tips for keeping your business functioning after a disasters or other form of property damage.
Have A Plan of Action
The best way to jump up from a disaster that could affect your ability to conduct business normally is to have a plan already in place. According to BizFilings.com, having proper safety measures in place and the right insurance along with your detailed and well thought out plan for disaster response will help you immensely in getting back on your feet after misfortune has struck. Your plan should include contingencies regarding who’s in charge in specific scenarios, what your first order of business should be, how to stop your business operations and restart them again and so on. By having a quality plan in place, you should be able to keep your business up and running or at least have limited downtime due to confusion.
Communicate With All Affected
When disaster strikes, one of the most important areas to focus on as a business is communication. Ready.gov reminds business owners that not only will you need to contact your employees in the event of a situation that affects your business’s functionality, but you’ll also have to communicate with your customers, suppliers, management team, the community, news media, and sometimes even the government or law enforcement, depending on the type of damage done.
For this reason, knowing the best way to get in contact with each group specifically could speed up the process of opening your doors back up and continuing to have your business running. Consider how both traditional forms of communication, like telephone, as well as more modern forms, like social media, can help you keep in contact with all potentially affected by your dilemma.
Work With the Right Clean Up Team
Once you’ve had property damage done at your place of business, whether it’s the fault of your business or something completely unrelated like a crime, you’re going to want to work with the right team of people to clean up the damage as quickly and discreetly as possible. By bringing in a team who can fix this problem and bring your property back up to code quickly, you’ll be able to get back into your normal routine quickly without taking a large financial hit due to having to shut down your business for an extended period of time.
Although it may seem like the end of the world when you have a disaster or property damage at work, you can move past this problem and continue progressing as a business by using the tips mentioned above. Stay safe, and keep these ideas in mind for the next time your business is faced with a misfortune.
Originally posted on December 26, 2015 @ 2:06 am