Insurance can cover some of the losses, she said, but there's more to keeping a business going than just covering the cost of property damage. Keeping employees safe and communicating with clients, customers and vendors during the crisis is just as important to business recovery. Employee and customer safety is the top priority in Macy's disaster plan, said Shirley Ono, the business continuity manager for Macy's West, a division of Federated Department Stores. Macy's has developed a large-scale emergency plan for major events such as earthquakes and widespread power outages, and also for smaller disasters, like water overflows and bomb scares. The California Lottery not only has planned for employee safety, they've planned to keep us playing.
Employees can call a toll-free number to find out what is going on in case of a disaster.
The lottery does drills to see how well the system works, Doyle Johnston said. They've completely taken the lottery system down at the Sacramento site and brought it up at the alternate sites. The lottery even requires its primary vendors to have a disaster plan. Since setting up the emergency plan in 1997, the lottery has never had to use it for any major disaster, Doyle Johnston said. Store My Resume to instantly apply for jobs.