Disaster Preparedness and Prevention
Vital Records
- 3-5% of your office’s records (average)
- contain information needed to keep your office functioning in the event of or to rebuild after a disaster
- needed to re-create your office’s legal and financial status
- determine rights and obligations of employees and citizens
- irreplaceable-copies do not hold same value as originals
- only format admissible as evidence
Examples: contracts, insurance policies, personnel information, executive orders, minutes of governing boards