Facility and Remote-Operation Backup Plan.

Decide in advance where your people and your essential services would operate if you lost your building, and ready the pieces a move would need, so a lost space is not a stopped mission.

In Protect Against Disaster and Systems Failure, after your data and insurance are handled.

Part A. Where the work would go

For each essential service, where would it run if your building were suddenly unavailable? Options to consider: a second site, partner or shared space, staff homes, moving the service online, or pausing the non-essential to protect the essential.

Essential service

Where it would run instead

What it would need there

Part B. Ready the pieces in advance

The things a relocation depends on, which have to exist before the emergency.

Staff can work remotely if needed (devices, access, a way to connect).

Current contact lists for staff and for the people you serve, reachable from outside the building.

Copies of the records a relocation would need, stored offsite or in the cloud.

A way to tell staff and the people you serve where to go and what is happening.

Pieces still to put in place

A good plan means a lost building is a disruption you route around, not a full stop. If any essential service has no alternative location, or if the readiness pieces are missing, that is where losing your space would still stop the work, and it is what to fix first. Feeds the Continuity-of-Service Plan.

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