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Disaster Preparedness In Building

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2.0 Preparedness 2.1Disaster preparedness
Disaster preparedness is very important when we want to build the building; it is because it’s related to the lives of people in the building whether it is visitor or staff in the building. The material also important because if disaster happened its will damaged and the value of the material will disappear. That why, we need prepare or be ready to salvation the material or document in the archive and record center. Besides that, if the material is ready with disaster, it should be tried to find out whether it is properly secured or otherwise.
According to (Sally A. Buchanan, Disaster planning, preparedness and recovery for libraries and archive :a RAMP study with guideline) the author said “the process …show more content…

A list of these people should be included in the document itself so that everyone knows who has the plan. At least one copy of the plan should be stored off site, such as in the home of the emergency planning coordinator, so that it is accessible during an emergency, even when personnel are not allowed into the building”. Steps to prevent or minimize damage to an organization, its people and its resources. More than that, An emergency plan helps the organization to be ready it is for to take steps to remove the threat of damage to records and archives by identifying preventive measures that can be taken to improve the stability and security of records. It also helps the organization to react during emergency procedures to protect undamaged materials and to maintain the previous condition of damaged materials so the material or document will recover. It also outlines the work involved with recovery the tasks of salvaging materials for cleaning and protecting them”.

In addition, Emergency planning involves three distinct activities:
• readiness: developing a combination of preventive measures to forestall emergencies or disasters, and strategies for dealing with disaster should it occur
• response : adhering to procedures to deal with any emergency situation that arises
• recovery : restoring records and facilities to their usual condition and resuming
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According to International Records Management Trust (Emergency Planning for Records and Archives Services) they said “Ideally, the emergency plan will be a written and widely disseminated document, updated, reproduced and circulated as necessary. Since the document will serve as tool for communicating the disaster prevention and recovery plan to people within the organization, it must be developed in coordination with all the players involved with handling emergencies within the organization”.

The plan may be more or less detailed depending upon size of organization and type

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