Importance Of Disaster Planning

1.0 Introduction

Disaster planning is very important in a field of proctecting a record, document, material and etc. Planning also prepared action taken when disaster happened before or during disaster happened. In order to protect themselves and their assets, including records and archives, many organizations develop emergency plans, which are also called disaster plans. In case accident happened in the building If people inside the building cannot escape from the disaster or fire the emergency plan or disaster plan is not work or function.

Beside that, first priority for disaster planning is to secure human life and safety. most of the buildings around us will do the same thing, namely a disaster plan for example emergency plan, how to

Sensible prevention is the backbone of disaster preparedness.Within mean of the library and archive everything possible should be done to protect to protect collection from emergency. For libraries an archives that are located at rural areas or with limited resources ,recovery from a major disaster may be nearly impossible. If more costly, preventive alternative are not possible, for example fire suppression system, then staff care and vigilance must be planned and implemented to help reduce the risk.Sally Buchanan said The first step in planning and carrying out good preventive procedure is a survey of hazards.This include both external and internal survey carried out systematically and regularly.The disaster plan should contain details of what the surveys are to note,and how they are to be carried out.Its a helpful to develop standard form to be used.In the disaster plan appropriated sources,to whom the result survey are report, should be established and direction for carrying out action item noted,so any required follow up is completed .A procedure for notifying the maintenance staff and for being informed when the repair has been completed is also important when we want to prevent a disaster.On the other hand,a collection hazard surveys for smaller organization ma be simply be a methodical and regularly schedule walk through by a staff member who notes problem which require attention,and assigns responsibility. In addition, steps may be taken which can, in fact, eliminate or reduce the possibility of trouble .It is because, when prevent the disaster strike it more reduce problem and its help to solve the problem. According to Disaster: Prevention, Preparedness and Action by Sally Buchanan) If libraries are situated in emergency weather areas where tornado ,hurricane, or earthquakes are may be posibility,