Planning for Disaster
Following up with a brief conversation I had on here with
wishesofastar I began writing the framework for a Disaster Operations Plan for my work earlier today. So far this is a very basic three page outline dealing mainly with the facilities side of things (which, of course, is my job).
Since each type of disaster is treated in a different way, I listed several of the more probible disasters that could happen here, namely (long lasting) utility outages, fire/explosion, contamination, tornado, flood (both plumbing failures and the Olentangy flooding) and structural failure. I also include Pandemic Flu because that's what brought this whole thing around to begin with. Just to see if anyone I showed it to was paying attention, I added "Zombie apocalypse" at the end of the list. My boss (a speedreader) didn't catch it his first time through, but as he reread it as we were discussing it, he caught it and started laughing. He wants me to keep it in until we present the final copy to our Dean (who has a sense of humor) but to make damn sure its pulled out before we send it to Business and Finance. I also showed it to the head of our IT group (who will be responsible for all the IT stuff, of course) and he didn't catch it at all, which sorta sucked because I had to keep from laughing for the rest of the twenty minute conversation we had about it afterwards...
I think my charge for this weekend may be to createn the ultimate list of disasters (or modify one I find online), just in case someone tells me that I haven't prepaired for a certain disaster... "Oh yeah, well I have planned for twenty-seven types of Nuclear Weevil attacks, how isn't that being prepared!!!"