Determine the location of the rooms or where the electrical meter and electrical distribution panels (panels of circuit breakers).
Make sure you have access to this room.
If you have more than one meter or more than one panel, set the equipment or devices and areas of the building that are connected to each.
Make sure you have in the room emergency lights or a flashlight with fresh batteries.
Make an inventory of fuses used in your building with their weapons. Keep adequate stocks of replacement fuses of appropriate size, to reach in order to replace the fuse that could burn when service is restored.
Know your equipment
Display the line diagram of the building in the halls of meters.
Write and implement a maintenance plan of the electrical system.
Make a list of equipment:
- which may or may not be extinguished;
- which must be reset (reset) after a power outage.
If necessary, establish a plan of controlled switching power supply equipment.
Make sure you know (and ideally documented) operation mode of your various systems (telephone, surveillance, alarm and security, emergency lights, fire, etc..) During and after a power outage.

Prepare your employees
Train and inform your employees so they know what to do in case of failure, for example regarding the use of elevators and how to turn off alarm systems, ventilation, air conditioning and other critical equipment or fragile.
Make sure key employees know how to report power outages and they know the address of the place of consumption or address tracking electrical contact.
If you have employees who use medical devices, make sure they have a source of backup power or means of transport to a site where there is no failure.
Bring every sector of your company at least a flashlight if not emergency lighting is there – Avoid candles.
Ensure that appropriate safety equipment is always readily available so that employees will have to reset switches can do so safely.