Disaster management plan

Peter Drucker, widely know management consultant, has stated, "The first duty of business is to survive, and the guiding principle of business economics is not maximization of profit - it is an avoidance of loss". To prepare "Disaster Management Plan" will increase the probability of survival as well as profitability, although it may never go exactly as planned, a lack of planning will surely make a disaster\´s effect worse. First, disaster management plan shall be consistent with company\´s loss control philosophy and it can be split into two distinct parts: (1) normal mode (loss control management) - business as usual, which encompasses planning and mitigation; and (2) crisis mode (crisis management) - an emergency response, incident management and production recovery following a disaster. Good loss control management will avoid and reduce the probability of crisis.