THE VOICE OF THE TOWNSHIP
There’s an old saying, “people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.” The Wayne Township Trustee’s Office is again reviewing and updating our Disaster Recovery Plan. The purpose of our Disaster Recovery Plan is to help our organization prepare for, respond to and recover from a disaster or emergency. Our plan is designed to be workable, cost effective, flexible and easy to maintain. One very important part of our plan is to protect our employees, clients and our community and to be able to continue to provide the highest level of service to everyone.
A disaster or emergency can be defined as an unplanned event that can cause physical injury to our employees, clients, or the public or that can disrupt and damage our day-to-day goal of serving the citizens of our community.
Some examples of natural or manmade disasters or emergencies are: fire, flood, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, storms, explosions, hazardous materials incidents, power outages, leaks, terrorism, work place violence, vandalism and theft.
Some of the benefits of having a plan in place are: to protect our employees, the community and the environment; keep us compliant with Federal, State and Local Regulators; help prevent financial losses, regulators fines and damages to our equipment; reduce our exposure to civil or criminal liability in the event of an incident; and to improve our image and credibility with our employees, clients and the community.
Our office has implemented many preventive procedures to ensure our ability to continue providing the highest level of service to the citizens of Wayne Township. All visitors must sign in at the front desk and be escorted while in our building. We have a security guard and security cameras to monitor our building. The doors to our offices are secured by combination locks. The building is protected with a sprinkler system. We are connected to a security office that would alert them to any movement in our building when our offices are closed. Our computer room is locked and secured. Our computers and data are secured with passwords and screen savers, and protected from viruses by software that is continuously updated. Our file servers are protected by UPS devices. Our files and data are backed up and stored in a secure off site location. We also store a supply of our special forms, vendor information, run procedures and documentation in secure off site locations.
Our important documents that are not captured on our Computer System are scanned and stored on our Imaging System that we purchased. These files are backed up and stored in a secure off-site location. In case these original documents would be lost due to a disaster, we could retrieve and reproduce these documents.
Our recovery procedures include: informing the public of our emergency or disaster; ensure the safety of our employees and clients, temporarily moving to a different site; restoring or providing offices for our employees, restoring or replacing our computer systems to be able to provide the needed services we provide as soon as possible. The plan will be tested and updated as needed.
If our community is hit by a disaster the Trustee will play a major role in providing services. There are many reasons why Wayne Township is considered a model of grass roots government in the state of Indiana. Having a disaster recovery plan in place, in the event of an emergency, only reinforces that position.
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