Some businesses that were not directly related to the Oklahoma City Bombing were affected just as much. These were suppliers of businesses in the Murrah Federal Building like office supplies houses, paper companies, and others that stayed in business because of the flow of purchase from the Federal Building businesses. Get prepared, now because your business is important. To get started you need to look at these approaches.
• Have a current recovery plan that will cover both personnel safety/evacuation and business or government operations. The plan should include recovery from appropriate or multiple locations.
• Consider that your personnel may not even be able to get to alternate locations for operations or supplies. Organizations should have recovery plans with several options and a well-trained staff to maximize recovery effectiveness. • Accountability of personnel has been a problem because basic planning was not done in many cases. Have a marshaling area, some distance from your building where all employees are told to go.
• Develop a list for the marshaling area and have each employee give their name and sign in before they are permitted to leave. Those who assist the injured in evacuation should provide names of the injured and attempt to ascertain which medical facility will be used.
• Those in glass buildings are more vulnerable to injury and damage from storms, earthquakes, and bombings.
• If you are in a facility with a lot of glass, either stock plywood and tarps or get them immediately to cover open or damaged areas. Protect your facilities and equipment from further damage. If you can store measurements off-site it would help to quickly restructure a safe operating environment. • Make sure your insurance policy has a terrorism clause in it. Most insurance companies are already putting that in, but many will not. Look for the ones that do, it may be more expensive but recovery from a tragedy is never cheap.
So after trying to emotionally recover your business and employees losses that were suffered there are many other aspects you need to be aware of that affect your operations. For businesses, damage will be calculated in financial impacts: the price of repairing, restoring, or replacing damaged property; revenue streams which were either reduced or eliminated because of the effects of a disaster on critical business functions; increased business expenses resulting from coping with the aftermath of the explosion; possibly even losses of market share or competitive positioning caused by the bomb.
