Disaster Recovery Training for Business: Importance, Methods, and Support

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Disaster Recovery Training
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Topic in the training content
This training content will give a small idea on which the whole plan is based upon, and
further related methods to be discussed with the supervisors and managers.
The training content will include:
 Team building
 Recovery procedures and the use of equipment
 Recovery of information technology
 Workplace health and safety at emergency
 Crisis counseling
 Proper use of equipment
Importance of topic to business
An organization sets objectives that it needs to achieve with the help of its internal
customers. For this purpose, there is an importance of team building in any organization either
small or large. Team building facilitates better communication between the employees and the
management. Also, promotes creativity and even develops problem solving skill (Sahebjamnia,
Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). Most of the businesses use information technology to communicate
within and outside the organization for effective and quick process. Laptops, internet, electronic
mail and several other kinds of information technologies are used, which if stops working can
create a massive amount of loss. Therefore, it is necessary to recover data and applications to
meet the need of the business in time (Mejri et al., 2017). The necessity of response readiness

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which compiles recovery procedures to be planned is also to be adapted and learned to tackle an
emergency situation.
Type of methods use to facilitate training
Several approaches can be used to support the training such as organizing recovery
workshops, first aid training and in-house training including mock disasters. Organizing recovery
workshops will let the individual understand the behavior of each and help to grow group
integration in case of emergency. Use of books and articles will also help to gain knowledge on
disaster response and methods to recover, rescue (Phillips, 2015). Then in the age of internet,
some online resources can be found and referred to take help from various websites to show the
less time-consuming methods to keep an update of new developments in disaster recovery
methods. Crisis counseling will also help the employees of the organization to take control and
mastery after any disaster or crisis.
The method will help the organization and its disaster recovery team as
The above techniques will help the organization to build strong internal relation and
understanding within the different organization level. Training the employees with crisis
counseling will help the organization to reduce emerging self-panic at any emergency. Ensuring
data security will interpret the company to stand on a safe side. Training the disaster recovery
team of an organization will build a robust defending team that will be ready to handle and gives
a backup after every disaster or in a disaster (Nilakant et al., 2016). However, training modules
rehearsed with the help of workshop and mock disaster will give transparent propaganda to the
employees. Workplace health and safety is also a sign for the organization to prepare its
employees for maintaining health and helping others with first aid.