{"id":697,"date":"2009-05-28T07:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T04:34:24","slug":"protecting-the-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/protecting-the-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about <a title=\"Identifying what's essential in business\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/whats-essential\/\" target=\"_blank\">identifying the essential aspects of your business<\/a> as one step in contingency planning. Obviously, the next thing is to protect those aspects as much as possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I see there are two distinct ways to protect essential details &#8211; find ways to prevent those details being hurt or destroyed and find ways to stop the business being so reliant on those details.<\/p>\n<p>Each aspect of your business may require very different techniques for protection against damage, but the idea is to reduce the risk of a problem and then reduce the length of time before it is operational again.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of how to protect some aspects of your business &#8211; and you can use these even if they don&#8217;t count as essential aspects of your business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide a safe working environment for yourself and staff &#8211; it may sound simple, but imagine a masseur or carpenter\u00a0falling over a loose cord and breaking\u00a0their arm &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>isolate people during health issues &#8211; for instance, swine flu can&#8217;t spread\u00a0 if\u00a0those with the disease are not near everyone else. This can mean sick people don&#8217;t come to work or you arrange for remote access for sick people and\/or essential staff<\/li>\n<li>have computer back up systems in place &#8211; and store the data off site. We use <a onmouseover=\"window.status='';return true;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clixGalore.com\/PSale.aspx?BID=94442&amp;AfID=70569&amp;AdID=10314&amp;LP=www.carbonite.com.au\">carbonite<\/a> as it regualrly backs up for us and we can reclaim work easily at any time, even after human errors rather than major problems<\/li>\n<li>make sure your equipment is serviced and cleaned frequently<\/li>\n<li>instal security alarms, locks and so on to protect against theft<\/li>\n<li>ensure smoke and fire alarms are working and placed appropriately &#8211; smoke alarms above a stove going off all the time tend to be ignored so move them<\/li>\n<li>purchase a fire proof safe to store precious documents, data and equipment<\/li>\n<li>establish rules to minimise damage of fragile and essential items &#8211; for instance, only fully licensed drivers do deliveries, store fragile items out of walkways and on stable surfaces<\/li>\n<li>research details for a back up web host in case you need to swap in a hurry (for example their servers were damaged in a natural disaster and your site would be down for weeks)<\/li>\n<li>have a spare computer and monitor available to use if necessary &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have to be as good as your usual computer as long as it can cope with the basic and essential\u00a0requirements<\/li>\n<li>know where you can hire replacement equipment if need be, and keep those details somewhere accessible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What other ways have you protected your essential business assets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about identifying the essential aspects of your business as one step in contingency planning. Obviously, the next thing is to protect those aspects as much as possible&#8230; I see there are two distinct ways to protect essential details &#8211; find ways to prevent those details being hurt or destroyed and find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[86,936,935,221],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","tag-business","tag-equipment","tag-essential","tag-protect"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}