Many people choose to protect the original documents firstly, because they think that they are the most important and are rather easy to identify. However, it is not usually how these are stored that is crucial for how a business survives a fire. The documents that are usually the most important to protect are the documents that we use daily in our workplaces. The more often they are used and handled, the more they will be missed following a fire. We call this ”active work material”, and this can be anything from a few simple notes in a pad to large dossiers and projects on which you work for a very long time.
