Why Your Business Needs an ERP | SERVPRO® of Prattville

1/28/2022 (Permalink)

Don’t wait until its too late! Contact your local sales rep to set up your Emergency Ready Plan today.

Imagine this. It is Monday morning. You just walked into your workplace. Someone forgot to turn the faucet off and the breakroom kitchen sink flooded over the weekend. The water damage has spread throughout the entire first floor: walls, flooring, cubicles, and all. You smell a horrible odor already and cannot see the floor because there is so much standing water. What do you do? Does your company have a plan?

An Emergency Ready Plan, or an ERP, ensures that no matter when disaster strikes your business, your team will know what to do and how to handle the situation. After an emergency event, it can take days, weeks, or even months to restore the building to its previous state. The most productive way to prevent long-term damage is to prepare in advance for such occurrences. Planning for potential events is crucial to respond to an emergency quickly. Something as simple as knowing where the water cutoff is can be the difference between a $7,000 and a $75,000 water damage.

Now that we know how important an ERP is, what do we do next? First things first! At the staff or departmental meeting, sit down with your employees and discuss where emergency exits are, where to shelter during an emergency event, who to call when you have water or smoke damage in your building, where the water and gas are cut off are, etc. A written plan posted around all emergency exits and standard doors in your building is key to ensuring visibility during an emergency. It is important to stress that your staff knows these plans to avoid confusion during a chaotic event.

Click here to see how you can use SERVPRO’s Emergency Ready Plan to prepare your businesses for any emergency event that comes your way.