The Impact Storms Have On Your Building

8/2/2021 (Permalink)

There is nothing you can do about the impact a storm will have on your building.

But you can certainly prepare a response plan for cleanup.

Commercial properties damaged by storms are always very difficult and tough to go through and experience. When large storms impact an area, they usually affect multiple properties which can cause some lag in the response time to get on site.

So, what can property owners and tenants do before hand to ready themselves and their tenants incase a natural weather event falls hard on an area?

• Discuss business continuity planning which increases the opportunity for the business to still operate even at limited capacities.
• Meet with selected vendors and establish a working relationship before you need them. Also ask about service level agreements for preferred treatment.
• Discuss the mission critical aspects of your business.
• Decide on team member decisioning capabilities.
• Document your plan and make it readily available.

By the way, SERVPRO of Salem West offers resources to make the disaster response planning process less cumbersome. It’s a system that ask the questions and provides “fill in the blanks” for the most important questions in a free business continuity plan.

It’s called the Emergency Response Plan or ERP for short. You can create your own by clicking ERP.

The best part about the ERP is it covers the basic necessities for an facility disaster response plan and it’ll help guide the conversation around who and what.

If you want assistance, reach out to one of our team members who can provide a site assessment.