Hurricane Season is upon us. Are you prepared? Have you taken the necessary precautions? Is your insurance up to date? Have you revisited your Hurricane Preparedness Plan? What about Your Business Continuity Plan? Are your staff familiar with it? Do they remember their roles?

Now is a good time to make sure your entire team is familiar and know what their roles are. Remember, having a Business Continuity Plan is not sufficient; it needs to be reviewed regularly and even tested. Have you revisited your Business Continuity Plan? Do you have one? If you don't, the Chamber suggests that you consider developing one for your business.

Business Continuity is not just about hurricane preparedness; it is about you doing all you can to ensure that in the event of any business disruption or interruption, disaster, natural or manmade, you have a clear, well-thought-out plan as to how you will recommence your operations in the shortest possible time. Insurance is a mitigating measure, yet thinking through and putting in place actions and approaches that make your business more resilient to all types of likely or possible disruptions is extremely useful.

The Chamber reminds you to Complete Our Business Continuity Plan/Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist to help. Also, remember the Chamber is offering a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Workshop that will help your firm develop a draft Business Continuity Plan. The Facilitator, Mr. Andrew George, is also prepared to conduct on-site visits to your main place of business to help refine your BCP and help validate and review the appropriateness of the BCP. A proper BCP may also be useful in negotiating better rates with your insurer.

Click here to access the checklist.

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