Disaster action checklist

This checklist provides possible initial actions that you might take following a disaster.

1. Plan initiation:
   1. Notify senior management
   2. Contact and set up disaster recovery team
   3. Determine degree of disaster
   4. Implement proper application recovery plan dependent on extent of disaster
   5. Monitor progress
   6. Contact backup site and establish schedules
   7. Contact all other necessary personnel–both user and data processing
   8. Contact vendors–both hardware and software
   9. Notify users of the disruption of service
2. Follow-up checklist:
   1. List teams and tasks of each
   2. Obtain emergency cash and set up transportation to and from backup site, if necessary
   3. Set up living quarters, if necessary
   4. Set up eating establishments, as required
   5. List all personnel and their telephone numbers
   6. Establish user participation plan
   7. Set up the delivery and the receipt of mail
   8. Establish emergency office supplies
   9. Rent or purchase equipment, as needed
   10. Determine applications to be run and in what sequence
   11. Identify number of workstations needed
   12. Check out any off-line equipment needs for each application
   13. Check on forms needed for each application
   14. Check all data being taken to backup site before leaving and leave inventory profile at home location
   15. Set up primary vendors for assistance with problems incurred during emergency
   16. Plan for transportation of any additional items needed at backup site
   17. Take directions (map) to backup site
   18. Check for additional magnetic tapes, or optical media if required
   19. Take copies of system and operational documentation and procedural manuals.
   20. Ensure that all personnel involved know their tasks
   21. Notify insurance companies