Are U Ready Disaster Management

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SBMS has had a long-term involvement in the support of disaster impacted businesses. Two of our Mentors have collaborated to create a book on how businesses can be prepared for disaster.

Their book, Are U Ready, is a valuable tool for any small business in understanding the important steps that can be taken to protect their business from disaster.

SBMS in conjunction with the Authors are now offering the book for FREE in an effort to support all businesses that have faced a disaster in the past, are responding to a current disaster or who wish to prepare in order to mitigate risks for the future.

Are U Ready?

Surviving Small Business Disaster is Unique.

This easy-to-read book provides clear insights into the psychological and emotional impact of disaster as well as a comprehensive, simple to follow and easy to complete series of checklists, tools and templates to assist business owners to identify and then create realistic plans to mitigate potential threats to their business whether they be the result of natural disasters, man-made disasters like sabotage and robbery or the impact of an accident or illness.

Foreword by Dr. Rob Gordon Ph.D. Consultant Psychologist 

 "This book is based on the authors’ experience of working with more than 1200 businesses affected by the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 and the Victorian floods in 2011, together with their own experience as small-business proprietors who have faced personal disasters that profoundly affected their enterprises. There could be no better qualifications for alerting others to the need for every business to have a disaster plan and directing attention to the ways in which small-business owners can be adaptive and resilient.

While the book is certainly a manual to guide planning and preparation, more importantly, it is a wake-up call and a consciousness raising based on the hard work and sometimes painful experience of the authors, who have shared their stories and their learning in a frank and generous way. It was rewarding for me to work with them during the Black Saturday recovery and I believe this to be a unique and valuable contribution to arise out of that painful event.

I recommend this book to everyone who runs a small business or any sort of enterprise that is worth protecting from destruction."