Power Outage Planning
Power outage planning for small businesses
Power outages hit small businesses unevenly. Hospitality, retail, and any operation with refrigeration or card payments lose revenue within minutes. A short plan reduces both downtime and damage.
What an outage actually disrupts
Card terminals, lighting, refrigeration, heating/cooling, alarm systems, and cloud-dependent tools. List what stops working in the first 15 minutes.
Pre-outage checklist
Battery backups for terminals, cold-chain priorities, torches and headlamps in known locations, manual receipt fallback, and a basic comms list.
During the outage
Protect stock first, communicate with customers second, and document everything for insurance third.
Coming soon
Power Outage Readiness will be a dedicated assessment module on WorkplaceReady, built on your existing Business Profile.
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