Current business and home numbers of key tenant personnel and employees are available. Agreements should be negotiated in advance to ensure that they are able to deliver services and products on short notice. Careful monitoring of all safety systems, including sprinklers, utilities and security is available. Accurate copies of building blue prints are readily available, showing locations of elevators, stairwells, standpipes, water and utility shutoffs, emergency generators and all mechanical equipment. A complete set of building keys, clearly tagged and marked, for police and fire personnel is maintained.
Relocation information is updated and maintained in case temporary quarters are required.
This should include the names and phone numbers of local real estate brokers and information on vacant, nearby buildings. Evacuation routes are posted in the building's common areas and individual spaces, and fire drills are scheduled on a regular basis. A list of carefully screened crisis telephone numbers f or plumbers, electricians, elevator contractors, security guard services and disaster restoration experts is maintained and regularly updated. If your computer is damaged by flood or fire, or stolen by burglars, you and your staff will need count-less hours to reconstruct your business records. By using proprietary data compression software, some services can back up a 4 GB hard drive in 10 to 20 minutes.