As you have probably already heard on 11 March 2:46 pm Tokyo time sweep a huge 8, 9-magnitude earthquake struck the northern coast of Honshu, removed the main island of Japan, caused widespread damage and triggering a massive tsunamis of that swept inland waterway transport, boats, cars and even buildings. Early reports state that hundreds were killed, but should increase this number. Some of Japan's nuclear reactors were damaged and will be shut down, had ordered to prevent radiation leaks with evacuations for local residents.
This morning we have tsunami warnings all over the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, where the AllBusiness.com are offices, and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that flooding is already meets our local beaches, get even harmful some boats here.
Hardly imagine the horrors of such an event, and my heart goes out to the inhabitants of Japan and someone with friends and family who live there. This disaster is very personal for me, as Japan a country to my heart is sweet. After college I worked about two years Toyota (home of a car plant) teaching English in the town an hour outside of Nagoya, a major city in Central Honshu. Nagoya is pretty far away from the most severely affected by this earthquake, and I am confident that my are old students and friends in order.
Whenever an act who will this violent nature, it is used we remind us how fragile really are - and how important it is to prepare. Here in Northern California we are keenly aware the ubiquitous dangers of earthquakes and forest fires. In other areas is the risk of tornadoes, floods or hurricanes are more likely. And, of course, there are always man-made disasters, such as last spring deepwater horizon oil rig explosion that devastated Gulf Coast economy with a massive oil spill.
In addition to the personal risks if you are a small business owner disasters can destroy also your business. That is, why is it so important to address the risk ahead of time:
First of all need to ensure the physical safety of your employees. What have you done to ensure that your staff is safe? Do you have fire extinguishers in key areas of Office or business? There is a well-stocked disaster kit available and emergency exits are clearly marked in your place of business? After a disaster, you know how to help your staff cope with?
Do you have to plan a disaster in place? If this is not the case, now is the time to form a crisis management team with your key employees. Who is responsible for planning routes emergency communication with employees in the aftermath of a disaster, and takes an inventory of business-critical functions that must as soon as possible revived?
Think about what you do are not only your physical assets (equipment, inventory, etc.) to protect your important business data as well. Are your sure important business and stored legal records offsite-preferably outside the scope of a local Katastrophe--where it can later be restored? If you have done so already, now is the time to start with a Data recovery service.
Is your business fully insured? Insurance does not necessarily protect disaster against everything (floods and earthquakes are often excluded), so do your homework and make sure that your policy covers the events, for which you are actually at risk. If you live in earthquake country, a directive named risk will be a better choice than a more general all risks policy might be.
See the section disaster planning the AllBusiness.com for more advice on how you protect your employees and your company the worst should happen.
A traditional Japanese proverb holds Shikata GA Nai ("there can be not helped"). This fatalistic aphorism I, and the Japanese psyche reveals a lot about often nut it me if something goes wrong. There are no longer simply or deep way to tell that these heartbreaking events completely out of anyone's control were. Here is the worst in the hope of is, and which is that when the sun rises on Japan morning, damage will not be as extensive as feared.
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