Disaster Recovery Planning and Training: Ensuring Business Resilience

This report outlines a disaster training, planning, and recovery agency's approach to enhancing disaster management for clients. It emphasizes the importance of comprehensive training covering risk management, assessment, emergency response, preparedness, and recovery. The primary training method involves demonstrations to equip the recovery team with essential skills, and an interactive rehearsal and training strategy is employed to improve information acquisition. The agency provides ongoing support in designing, implementing, and reviewing emergency recovery plans, addressing emergent risk situations. This support includes updating the recovery plan, testing, implementation, and reviewing, ensuring successful disaster recovery, improving team capacity, and maintaining long-term client relationships. The report concludes by highlighting the agency's opportunity to gather first-hand information on the challenges faced by organizations in their disaster recovery efforts.

Running Head: DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING AND TRAINING 1
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING AND TRAINING
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Institutional Affiliation

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Who we are
Our company Disaster Experts Co is a disaster training, planning and recovery agency
focused on enhancing the disaster management efforts for our clients by offering disaster training
recovery and planning services.
Why we are unique
Our disaster training comprehensively covers unique topics such as disaster risk
management, disaster risk identification, disaster risk assessment, emergency response, disaster
preparedness and recovery. Our training also covers aspects such as how to make disaster
management effective and various plans that can be employed in disaster response.
Importance of these topics
These topics are important for Wash disaster business in that they will effectively equip
the company’s disaster recovery team with recovery team with effective skills to help them
identify potential risks, assess the impact of the identified risks and enhance their preparedness to
deal with disasters as well as recovery capabilities (Olshansky, Hopkins & Johnson,2012).
Training methods
Demonstrations will be the main training method to be employed in the process.
Importance of this method to the organization and its recovery team
Effective disaster management requires the acquisition of certain skills in order to handle
new equipment and follow specific disaster recovery steps and processes(Olshansky, Hopkins &
Johnson,2012). Safety skills are also an important component of disaster recovery. This can be

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effectively learnt through demonstrations. With the specific nature of disaster recovery process,
it is important to have a method that allows questions and clarifications. This method will
provide a platform for questions and answers. It will, therefore, help both the organization and its
recovery team to fully benefit from the training process.
Rehearsal and training strategy
Interactive rehearsal and training strategy would be employed in order to keep the
recovery team engaged throughout the process and improve their ability to acquire new
information. This strategy will provide open communication between our organization and the
trainees facilitated by discussions (Wallace & Webber, 2017). It would also incorporate
brainstorming to address any confusion arising from the process. This strategy would be
effective in demonstrating the processes and steps that will be taught during the training.
Current and Ongoing support
Our organization will provide current and ongoing support in the design and
implementation and reviewing of an emergency recovery plan for the client. With the differing
nature of emergencies, the organization will provide ongoing support to help the recovery team
handle emergent risk situations more effectively (Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). It
will help in analyzing the organization’s capacity to deal with different types of disasters.
Additional support that will be provided includes updating the recovery plan, testing,
implementation and reviewing of the plan.
Importance of current and ongoing support

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Current and ongoing support is important in ensuring a successful disaster recovery. It is
also important in improving the capacity of the recovery team by providing an opportunity for
them to be led through the recovery process and in the actual implementation of the acquired
skills(Sahebjamnia, Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). It is also important to maintaining a long-term
positive relationship between the organization and its clients. Finally, it will provide an
opportunity for Disaster Experts Co to acquire first-hand information on the challenges faced by
organizations in their disaster recovery efforts.

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References
Olshansky, R. B., Hopkins, L. D., & Johnson, L. A. (2012). Disaster and recovery: Processes
compressed in time. Natural Hazards Review, 13(3), 173-178.
Sahebjamnia, N., Torabi, S. A., & Mansouri, S. A. (2015). Integrated business continuity and
disaster recovery planning: Towards organizational resilience. European Journal of
Operational Research, 242(1), 261-273.
Wallace, M., & Webber, L. (2017). The disaster recovery handbook: A step-by-step plan to
ensure business continuity and protect vital operations, facilities, and assets. AMACOM
Div American Mgmt Assn.