You may just have returned from your Easter break but did you know that 24 April is Administrative Professionals Day? Hopefully you’re feeling refreshed and ready to get stuck back in to work. Now is a great time to have a Spring clean in your business and get all your paperwork up to date. Clearing the backlog is a cathartic experience – it de-clutters your mind and gives you a clear head to focus on future plans for the business.

If your eyes are firmly set on the future of your business and you have ambitions for growth, then it’s important that you also think about how you protect your business. All businesses need to be built on solid foundations.

Business insurance plays a crucial role in this protection. Buildings and contents insurance cover your business premises and office equipment. Employer’s Liability protects your employees and Public Liability covers customers, suppliers and other visitors to your offices. You may have company cars, vans and other commercial vehicles covered by a fleet policy. And you may manufacture goods which are covered by Product Liability insurance. If you work in professional services you probably have Professional Indemnity insurance.

But have you thought about how your business would cope if it was hit by a disaster? Your business insurance would cover the financial compensation but what about the practicalities of getting you back up and running and trading again? Your insurer wouldn’t be able to help you with this. Do you have a disaster recovery plan? If you don’t, now is the perfect time to develop one.

A disaster recovery plan should be focused on the actions you take in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. While all businesses face different risks and, therefore, all disaster recovery plans are different, it’s likely there are some common issues. Employee safety, customer data, IT security and salvaging business assets are just a few that spring immediately to mind.

It may feel like a daunting task if you are creating a disaster recovery plan for the first time. However, help is at hand. First Recovery are a specialist disaster recovery provider focused on supporting small and medium sized businesses. They offer affordable disaster recovery packages and, when you sign up to their services, you also get access to their online disaster recovery plan template. You can use this to create a plan tailored to your specific business needs and, because it’s stored online, it’s always available for you to access ad update, whenever and wherever you need it. 

On Administrative Professionals Day why not take the opportunity to get your paperwork in order and organise robust disaster recovery support for your business?