Assume that you have been hired by a small veterinary practice to help them prep
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Assume that you have been hired by a small veterinary practice to help them prepare a contingency planning document. The practice has a small LAN with four computers and Internet access. This clinic provides services for dogs and cats only. These services include office visits, surgery, hospitalization, and boarding. The clinic is located in a geographical region that is regularly threatened by hurricanes. The one-story building is constructed of cement block, with no windows, and meets all hurricane-related building codes. The clinic does accept animals for boarding when a hurricane threatens, as public shelters for local residents do not allow animals. Tasks:
1. Prepare a list of threat categories and the associated business impact for each. Identify preventive measures for each type of threat category. Include at least one major disaster in the plan.
2. You are now in the phase of developing a business continuity plan for the same veterinary practice. Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP. Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.
3. Do an analysis of the types of files that should be considered critical for backup purposes. While it is common to focus on databases and other data files for standard business processing, consider other types of information such as email messages and contact lists, appointment calendars, system logs, PBX configuration files, etc.
4. You will now prepare the incident response plan. Create a list of stakeholders for the IR planning committee. For each type of stakeholder, provide the reasons for inclusion and the unique aspects or vision that you believe each of these stakeholders will bring to the committee. Develop an outline for a training course for general end users. Justify the topics that you have included in your outline.
5. Write an after-action report in the case of the clinic being hit with a hurricane. What recommendations would you make to improve the IR plan that was previously written?
6. Create the disaster recovery plan. Create the scenario and recommended during, after, and before actions for a major hurricane, including preventative controls and strategies.
7. Develop a list of vulnerabilities that the veterinary clinic may have in the event of a major hurricane. What strategies for business continuity will be appropriate for the clinic? Create a report that provides an analysis and recommendations.
8. Research and write a report detailing the various crisis management software packages that are available. List key features of each, and create a comparison chart. Which of them, if any, would work for the vet clinic?
9.The federal government uses many techniques to ensure that multiple high officials are not exposed to the same vulnerabilities at the same time. For example, the president and the vice-president would be taken to separate safe areas in the event of an armed attack on the country. Draft a set of company policies that would help to avoid the loss of more than one key executive in a single crisis. Describe the relative costs of each strategy you present.
Explanation / Answer
1)
The disaster like -
Natural gas leak - It can evaculate your employees and patients
A tornado - It ll harm nearby places including your place too
viral influenza -It kept your employees home sick
Electrical fire -It can be destroy your building and harm your patient and staff
Flood like situation -it will flooded your building
2)A disaster, large or small, can impact any business when least expected.These kind of disasters mostly impact small business, you can make a difference among your employees, clients and community by promoting disaster planning and leading by example.This is simple fill-in-the-blank plan to get started with clinic disaster plan.
Please be friendly and keep good relationship with your veterinatians friends/colleague and staff , so that you can expect help from them in case of emergency. if the disaster impact is temporary, you can shift patients for temporary basis to your colleague . If the impact is prolonged ,you can make financial arrangement to share there facility. Please make sure to inform your clients of the additional arrangements you make.
All disaster response locally.Your state/central governement is in charge. Many state/central governement have an emergency management coor-dinator. Find out who handles disasters in your county (check the county website) and also whether your county has an Animal Issues Committee. You will definitely get help you if you contact them.
3) All staff members are encouraged to develop a personal disaster kit for the people and animals in their households. A basic kit contains supplies and essential documents, and is readily available should a disaster strike. Some examples of items in the disaster kit are a radio, flashlight, batteries,
photos and/or a video of pets and property, medications and other basic supplies. You should always be prepared to take your pets with you in an evacuation by having appropriate means of transporting them.
Staff members will keep current emergency contact information on file with the practice, updating it as necessary.
Clinic name: XYZ clinic
If a disaster or Signifisant event impasts the practice, Staff member's will Call:
1.name/number – practice owner:______________________________________________________
2.name/number – other manager or emergency contact:____________________________________
If these two people cannot be reached or local communications are down, staff should contact
3.name/number – Contact outside immediate area:___________________________________________
All staff members must check in if physically able to do so. After initial contact, staff should check in daily or as needed until the crisis has passed.
Important Contacts-
In an emergency, Dial 100.
non-emergency phone:
name/number of Local Animal Control :___________________________________________
Utilities:
Gas :_______________________________________________________________________
Electricity:___________________________________________________________________
other important Contact's:
local emergency animal hospital: Name/Number_________________________________________
local emergency management Coordinator:Name/Number__________________________________
additional Contacts:
Ambulance :_______________________________________________________________________
Police Station : ____________________________________________________________________
Fire brigade :_______________________________________________________________________
Insurance
We are having following insurance policies in order to preserve our patients an dour livelihoods-
Policies are kept at this location _______________________________ with additional copies held off-site at _____________________________________________________________________.
Please Note Insurance policies are reviewed and updated annually.
4)General Checklist :
5)
6) Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
7)Check safety and security of any people or animals
8) In case of hurricane occur
In case of winter weather[Heavy snow Fall]:
Checklist of documents: