A disaster recovery plan needs to be well structured and exhaustive in their coverage of activities to either eliminate business losses or at least reduce the impact of damage that may be caused by disasters and calamities. Creating, maintaining and publishing a disaster recovery plan template is a very important activity in any organization and in fact, most business entities have specialized teams to maintain and propagate them internally and externally. DRPs are an essential aspect of business plans and are of paramount importance when it comes to client comfort and stakeholder assurance. A well designed disaster recovery plan indicates the organizations ability to plan for contingencies, their grasp of business modalities and their robustness of business structure.

Employees Awareness and readiness: A disaster recovery plan must have the capability to familiarize all the employees with the implications of business non continuity, risks involved with gaps in operations, plans to overcome the risks, instructions for performing critical activities during emergencies and educate them about the optimal timelines for completion of each activity. A disaster recovery plan template is a living and evolving document that should contain provisions for modifications and all employees must be encouraged to provide inputs about activities, improvisations and modifications to the list. Increased employee participations can not only lead to increase in employee awareness about the DRP; it can also lead to the overall improvement of DRP structure. This can also facilitate a smooth and error free implementation of the DRP whenever the need arises.

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