Disaster Declaration
1. Disaster Declaration is the process to activate the BC, DR or CM plan after a disaster or emergency had occurred.
Notes: The organization via the Disaster Declaration Officer can request for a disaster declaration from the Crisis Management Team with a preliminary damage assessment from the Damage Assessment Team. Related Terms: Disaster Declaration Officer, Alert, Activation, Damage Assessment.
|
2. A formal announcement by pre-authorized personnel that a disaster or severe outage is predicted or has occurred and that triggers pre-arranged mitigating actions (e.g. a move to an alternate site.
(Source: Disaster Recovery Institute International / Disaster Recovery Journal - DRII/DRJ)