Emergency Preparedness Resources for Businesses

Workplace Pandemic Preparedness Resources

Selected Downloadable Publications
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TVF&R Disaster Preparedness for Businesses - Basic Steps (124 kB)

TVF&R Disaster Preparedness for Businesses - Emergency Response (116 kB)

TVF&R Tips for Non-Structural Mitigation (80 kB)

National Incident Management System (NIMS) implementation guidelines for the private sector: December 2006 (26 kB)

American Red Cross Preparing Your Business for the Unthinkable (several HTML and downloadable files available)

AT&T Business Continuity Report, August 2002 (538 kB)

AT&T Business Continuity Study Results, June 2006 (77 kB)

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) What Businesses Learned from the Nisqually Earthquake (317 kB)

FEMA Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry  (HTML or 349-kB PDF format)

General Accounting Office report on Continuity of Operations Plans (530 kB)

Institute for Business & Home Safety Businesses that Bounce Back (HTML)

Institute for Business & Home Safety Getting Back to Business (Post-disaster guide: 63 kB)

Institute for Business & Home Safety Open for Business (Planning guide: 648 kB)

Institute for Business & Home Safety Open for Business File Folder (request free copy)

National Fire Protection Assn. (NFPA) articles on record protection and storage (431 kB) Reprinted with permission from NFPA Journal (Vol. 96, No. 2) © 2002, NFPA, Quincy, MA.  All rights reserved.

NFPA Employee and Life Safety excerpts (from NFPA's website: 4.4 MB)

NFPA life safety resources for people with disabilities

NFPA Standard 1600, 2007: recommended for adoption by the American National Standards Institute as a national preparedness standard; voluntary adoption recommended by NIMS Integration Center (free PDF from NFPA)

NFPA 1600: Disaster/ Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs - comments and description

National Safety Council Emergency Response Reference Guide (link to downloadable MS Word document: 40 kB)

Oregon OSHA Expecting the Unexpected (planning for workplace emergencies; 712 kB)

Oregon earthquake drill requirement for workplaces

OSHA Principal Emergency Response and Preparedness (downloadable 620-kB PDF document)

Public Entity Risk Institute Risk Management for Small Business (downloadable from PERI website as a series of PDF files)

Public Entity Risk Inst. Organizations at Risk (what happens when small business and non-profits encounter disasters; summary and downloadable PDF)

Public Entity Risk Inst. After the Disaster (decision-making guide for small-business owners) (232 kB)

Remote Site & Equipment Management paper on business security and the Homeland Security Alert System (free download; 189 kB)

State of Virginia Business Emergency Preparedness Toolkit

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Pandemic influenza resources

• Johns Hopkins Univ. Influenza Educational Initiative (free access to training materials)

• Emerging Infectious Diseases: vaccine possibilities for pandemic influenza

• Univ. of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: Promising Practices

• Univ. of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity resources for business health preparedness

• Trust for America's Health pandemic flu resource center (includes several free downloads)

• US Dept. of Health and Human Services updated pandemic flu and avian flu information

• Oregon State Public Health pandemic flu information

• Washington County DHHS pandemic flu information

• Business planning resources from US DHHS

• OSHA guidance on preparing workplaces for pandemic influenza

• US Dept. of Homeland Security pandemic flu guidelines for critical infrastructure and key resources (4 MB)

• Draft planning checklists for federal agencies (many items broadly applicable) (136 kB)

• Public Entity Risk Institute: Preparing for a Local Crisis within a Global Pandemic

• HR considerations for non-federal employers from US Dept. of Health and Human Services

• HR considerations from federal Office of Personnel Management

• HR preparedness for King County, Washington (560 kB)

• Business preparedness resources from San Francisco Dept. of Public Health

• US Fire Administration planning guidelines for public safety agencies

• Harvard Business Review article: preparing for pandemic flu (small fee for article)

• Harvard School of Public Health survey on public willingness to comply with control measures, and concerns about individual and family impact

• Preparedness resources from the Food Marketing Institute (grocery sector)

• US Dept. of Transportation pandemic preparedness guidelines for transportation subsectors

• Detailed preparedness guide for pandemic flu from Marsh (811-kB paper available)

• Business impact and preparedness resources from Deloitte

• Public- and private-sector pandemic impact model from Booz Allen Hamilton (130-kB paper available)

• State -by-state pandemic economic impact estimates from Trust for America's Health
   

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Selected Websites
American Red Cross workplace preparedness

Association of Contingency Planners

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) Earthquake Mitigation Information for Businesses

Contingency Planning & Management

Cyber security links

Disaster Central

Disaster Recovery Journal

Disaster Recovery Institute International

Global Continuity

Institute for Business and Home Safety

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Secure Buildings

MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

National Fire Protection Association

National Safety Council Emergencies and Disasters

NIOSH Emergency Preparedness for Business

OSHA Worksite Emergency Preparedness

Ready Business (US Dept. of Homeland Security)
Listo Negocios (información en español del departamento de seguridad nacional)

Secure-It Consultants (non-structural seismic mitigation)

Small Business Association: disaster preparedness

WorkSafe Technologies (non-structural seismic mitigation)
 

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