Skip to Content
Technical Documentation and Process
book

Technical Documentation and Process

by Jerry C. Whitaker, Robert K. Mancini
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
195 pages
4h 54m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Technical Documentation and Process

7

Disaster Planning and Recovery*

7.1 Introduction

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and floods come to mind when we talk about risks that can disable a facility and its staff. Risk can also be man-made. Terrorist attack, arson, utility outage, or even simple accidents that get out of hand are facts of everyday life. Facilities, especially those that convey information from government to the public during major catastrophes, must keep their people and systems from becoming disaster victims.

During earthquakes, employees sometimes have to dodge falling ceiling tiles and objects hurled off shelves, and watch computers and workstations dance in different directions. Employees sometimes become the emergency response team when a disaster disrupts ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Be a More Active Listener

Be a More Active Listener

Curtis Newbold
What Successful Project Managers Do

What Successful Project Managers Do

W. Scott Cameron, Jeffrey S. Russell, Edward J. Hoffman, Alexander Laufer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781439861608