Flooding

In the words of Dorothea Mackellar’s poem “My Country” Australia is a “ land of droughts and flooding rains” .

While floods are not a common feature of all businesses there are certain areas within our towns and cities that periodically experience unusual rains and therefore floods. It seems that no matter what precautions our governments undertake nature is able to compensate.

However natural floods are not the only types of floods we experience. Too many times we hear of burst water mains flooding streets and of burst pipes saturating homes and businesses while the owners are asleep or having a well earned rest.

With this in mind Juparo has created a specific Flood Safe plan. A plan specifically tailored for small business in respect to Floods.

Our Flood Safe Plan covers the following subjects: -

• Identifying Impacts
• Critical Functions of the Business
• Chance of Flooding
• Triggers for Flood Action
• Flood Proofing the Premsies
• Flood Proofing Worksheet
• Preparing for a Flash Flood
• Flood Emergency Kit
• Flood Action Worksheet
• Emergency Contacts – Staff
• Emergency Contacts – External
• Occupational Health & Safety
• Occupational Health & Safety Worksheet
• Responding – When a Flood is Likely
• Responding - When a Flood is likely Worksheet
• Responding - During a Flood Worksheet
• Recovering from a Flood
• Initial Recovery Actions
• After Flood Action Worksheet
• Ongoing Recovery Actions
• Ongoing Recovery Actions Worksheet
• Cost of Recovery Worksheet
• Impacts Worksheet
• Flood Proofing Worksheet
• Flood Action Worksheet
• Flood Emergency Kit Worksheet
• Emergency Contacts – Internal
• Emergency Contacts – External
• Occupational Health & Safety Worksheet
• Flood Likely Action Worksheet
• Respond during a flood Worksheet
• After Flood Action Worksheet
• Ongoing Recovery Actions

Business Disaster Planning is all about your business and being ready to swing into action at a moment’s notice, a process of getting the business ready for “impact” and back into action once the disaster is over. You may have less than a week to convince your clients that you are open for business as usual.

The big negative to this planning is the time required; time you cannot spend on the business of making money.

Our “READY TO GO” plans are ready for implementing; all you need to do is customise it to your business. That is to ensure it covers any specific characterisitics in your business.

Once it is customised it is ready to allow you to sleep a little easier.