For When Disaster Strikes: Five Steps to Make Sure Your Business Is Covered
As much as we, as humans like to pretend that disaster isn’t potentially around the corner, it is, and it is at all times! Businesses, from start-ups to leaders of their field, are more susceptible than most to disaster, whether they be ‘natural’ or forced upon them by crime. Although your business owners can’t see into the future, you can take precautions in the present to make sure both you and your business’s futures are safeguarded. Here are five tips to do so:
- Secure the premises
You’re probably thinking this is an obvious one, but more often than not they can be the things that slip your mind. To stop any potential burglars, the first port of call is to stop their access to your establishment, so strengthening doors is a good place to start: here are six simple and effective ways to strengthen your doors. You should also fit window locks (for when the burglars realize they aren’t getting through your newly strengthened doors) as well as installing both security cameras and lighting to catch them in the act. Just give it the full works; whatever can deter those pesky burglars, do it.
- Secure your equipment also
You are probably using the internet for everything these days, like most other businesses — check these four unbelievable ways they are — so it’s important to make sure your computer is sufficiently safeguarded. For when a ‘natural’ disaster takes place and your computer finds itself at fault or failing, failover procedures are vital in recovering, restoring and repairing all of the data on the device that is so pivotal to the success of your business. With professional failover in minutes with Infrascale’s disaster recovery, you can’t go far wrong.
- Be wary of employee theft
As much as we’d like to believe that nobody would steal from us, especially those who we have put trust in, it does happen. Keep a close eye on till money and petty cash, as both are particularly vulnerable to employee theft. There are steps you can take to prevent retail loss prevention, and all instances of theft should be met with decisive action; you should be prepared to fully support prosecution, and every employee should be aware of that.
- Shred sensitive paper waste
Don’t simply throw it in the bin because criminals might be able to use the information it carries: you have to shred it. Whether that be with a shredding machine, or simply a pair of shredding scissors, you must make sure all the sensitive information, including client’s financial records and employee details on the sheets are literally wrapped to shreds.
- Most importantly
Make sure all of the above are not only done but re-done and checked regularly. That door you strengthened two months ago: might already be weakened. The cameras you installed last year: may have blown a fuse. The failover recovery subscription you have: may have ran out. Make sure to check, check, check. And then check again!
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