The Disaster Recovery Handbook, 3rd Edition

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HEALTH AND SAFETY

Keeping Everyone Healthy

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

—AUTHOR UNKNOWN

INTRODUCTION

A step-by-step approach to analyzing your business situation and developing written procedures for avoiding problems or reducing their damage should they occur includes consideration of environmental, health, and safety issues. Issues that affect the health and safety of your employees and the surrounding community are becoming much more high profile, as the investment community evaluates corporate sustainability reports with the same level of scrutiny as the financial reports. Environmental and safety disasters have the potential to cost much more than the immediate damages; these disasters can tarnish brand ...