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	TOTAL FLEET CONTROL At the heart of the Midland Motorway Network, the Birmingham Data Storage Centre Limited is ideally situated to service clients from all over the country. With easy access to the M42 (2 miles), M5, M6, M40 and M1 from the Library, we can respond to calls quickly and efficiently. We are able to provide secure transportation of your data by a liveried Birmingham Data Storage Centre vehicle, the interior of which is converted to handle data with as little movement as possible. The drivers of our vehicles are all Full Time employees of the Company and as such are fully vetted to B.S.I.A. standards. In Addition to the standard rotation schedules agreed prior to a contracts inception, the Birmingham Data Storage Centre Limited will undertake to provide a 24 hour per day - 7 day per week, 365 days per year emergency delivery service dedicated to your requirements. All it takes is a facsimile message or a telephone call, quoting your prearranged access code, to affect immediate retrieval of any document, file, cartridge or computer tape. DISASTER AVOIDANCE PRINCIPLES Contingency planning is concerned with recovery from a disaster - dealing with an event AFTER it has happened. Disaster avoidance is about preventing problems - trying to ensure that certain events do not happen in the first place. It makes sense, therefore, to devote some time to look at ways in which disasters may be avoided, as well as how to respond to them should they occur. An organisation's objective should therefore be to reach a sensible balance between contingency planning and disaster avoidance measures based on assessment of probability, likely impact, and the effectiveness and cost of safeguards. Every potential problem will have a cause, but it is the effect that we see. Therefore, more often than not, it is against the effect, rather than the cause, that action is taken. This type of reaction frequently manifests itself in news stories when politicians and the like are suggesting solutions to some problem or other. It is a natural human response to react in this way. The essence of Disaster Avoidance is the anticipation of possible problems, taking action to eliminate the cause, and thus prevent them from happening. The idea that action is required before a problem occurs is a key principle. For example, when thinking of "fire" as a potential problem, the tendency is to think of alarms, extinguishers and the like. - But when did the presence of an extinguisher ever prevent a fire from breaking out? We should be thinking of non flammable partitions etc, and the safe storage of all media. We should think of preventative measures.   [to TOP]
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