Disaster action checklist
This checklist provides possible initial actions that you might take following a disaster.
- Plan initiation:
- Notify senior management
- Contact and set up disaster recovery team
- Determine degree of disaster
- Implement proper application recovery plan dependent on extent of disaster
- Monitor progress
- Contact backup site and establish schedules
- Contact all other necessary personnel–both user and data processing
- Contact vendors–both hardware and software
- Notify users of the disruption of service
- Follow-up checklist:
- List teams and tasks of each
- Obtain emergency cash and set up transportation to and from backup site, if necessary
- Set up living quarters, if necessary
- Set up eating establishments, as required
- List all personnel and their telephone numbers
- Establish user participation plan
- Set up the delivery and the receipt of mail
- Establish emergency office supplies
- Rent or purchase equipment, as needed
- Determine applications to be run and in what sequence
- Identify number of workstations needed
- Check out any off-line equipment needs for each application
- Check on forms needed for each application
- Check all data being taken to backup site before leaving and leave inventory profile at home location
- Set up primary vendors for assistance with problems incurred during emergency
- Plan for transportation of any additional items needed at backup site
- Take directions (map) to backup site
- Check for additional magnetic tapes, or optical media if required
- Take copies of system and operational documentation and procedural manuals.
- Ensure that all personnel involved know their tasks
- Notify insurance companies