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Fire-Rated Storage for Financial Professionals

Fire-Rated Storage for Financial Professionals

Fire is unpredictable and if you could tell when it would happen, you would prepare accordingly. In order to protect your business, you might search for fireproof files or fireproof storage because you know it is important – 40% of businesses fail to reopen after a disaster[FEMA]. Fire-rated storage is an important component of any Risk Management or Disaster Recovery plan that you build for your company.

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The file cabinet that crashed but didn’t burn

The file cabinet that crashed but didn’t burn

Newspaper reports called this the “most destructive fire ever to hit Terre Haute, Indiana.” When it was over, two blocks of the city’s busiest section lay in charred rubble. But, for CPA Kendall H. Hayhurst, the destruction did not affect the vital records stored in his FireKing fireproof insulated cabinet.

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It withstood an F-5 tornado without a loss

It withstood an F-5 tornado without a loss

Backing up the computer and placing the disk in the file cabinet along with other valuable records was a routine precaution for Sande and Jimmy Johnson, ever since they had purchased a four-drawer FireKing file cabinet. Routine, that is, until the tornado that struck that fateful May 3rd.

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Saved from a rolling disaster by her FireKing cabinet

Saved from a rolling disaster by her FireKing cabinet

June proved to be much hotter than Mrs. Gerald Adams ever expected. At least for the contents of her household.

During her move from Florida to Massachusetts, the van carrying virtually all her earthly possessions caught fire. Starting at the van’s rear axle, the blaze quickly raged through the entire body of the trailer and totally destroyed everything on the truck, with one exception: the contents of her FireKing two-drawer file cabinet. Though badly scorched on the outside from the intensity of the heat, all the important documents stored within had come through unscathed.

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Great insurance for their insurance papers

Great insurance for their insurance papers

Virtually every business purchases insurance to protect its assets. But how do you protect the insurance documents that insure the continuity of your business?

Community Management Association, Inc., of Colorado Springs, Colorado, relied on two 4-drawer FireKing legal filing cabinets to protect all its important documents, including their insurance papers and other vital papers. It was protection for which they were profoundly grateful when an intense fire destroyed their office building.

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Data retrieved, picture-perfect, from fire that melted girders

Data retrieved, picture-perfect, from fire that melted girders

American Hose and Hydraulics of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, suffered a devastating fire that totally destroyed its offices. Experts determined that the blaze roared for more than 10 1/2 hours at temperatures in excess of 2000º, with temperatures exceeding 2800º during the hottest 3 1/2 hours of the conflagration.

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Disaster Prep for Accounting Firms

Disaster Prep for Accounting Firms

In the Sarbanes-Oxley era of regulatory and legal compliance, an increasing amount of corporate data is being recorded, categorized and archived. Vital records are principally defined as “those records containing information that is essential to the survival of an organization in the event of a disaster or business interruption.”

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Record Keeping Best Practices for Dentist Offices

Record Keeping Best Practices for Dentist Offices

Protecting and creating “backup copies” of a dental practice’s vital records is a crucial management issue for dentists. When the personal, privileged health information of patients accumulates over the lifetime of a practice, records management and protection becomes an increasingly serious issue that, when mismanaged, cannot only threaten the livelihood of a practice but can also compromise the personal information of patients and possibly create a HIPAA violation. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) regulations are a set of national standards which are designed to force dental practices – along with the rest of the healthcare infrastructure – to comply with strong security and privacy standards to protect personal health information. Failure to comply with HIPAA can result in civil penalties (mainly fines) as well as, in rare cases, criminal penalties.

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Complying with Medical Laws & Requirements

Complying with Medical Laws & Requirements

Every category of business or governmental organizations has a number of certain documents and other items that are important enough to safeguard from all types of catastrophic disaster. Some industries make the decision to protect these documents, known in legal terms as “Vital Records” in hopes to have a smoother recovery in the event of a fire, flood or other disasters; other industries have the same intention, but are often required by law or regulation to provide adequate Vital Records Protection (VRP). Either way, storing Vital Records and documents in fireproof containers will save an organization not only precious information, but the time, money, and effort that would have gone into trying to reproduce destroyed documents.

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