Downloadable Publications
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noted. Most are copyrighted and made available at no
charge by their publishers. You may download
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Workplace preparedness resources
for pandemic influenza
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)
Vulnerability of community
businesses to environmental disasters
American
Red Cross Preparing Your Business for the Unthinkable (downloadable files)
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)
Disaster Resource Guide, 2007-08: Protect and connect your
most valuable Resources (planning for human costs)
Disaster Resource Guide, 2007-08: Seven mistakes you don't
want to make - are people truly part of your plan?
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 Getting Back to Business
(Downloadable
post-disaster guide: 63 kB)
Institute
for Business & Home Safety Open for Business Toolkit
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, 2010: 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
Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York: Disaster Planning
(downloadable MS Word document: 114 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)
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)
Swiss Re: Basics of Business Continuity Management (free
download; 604 kB)
State of
Virginia Business Emergency Preparedness Toolkit
State of Washington business emergency preparedness resources
Additional 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
Recovery Journal
Disaster Recovery Institute
International
Global
Continuity Institute
for Business & Home Safety's DisasterSafety.org
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Secure Buildings National
Fire Protection Association
National
Safety Council Emergency Preparedness
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)
NOTE: Some
files and links on this page are from commercial websites. The
presence of this
material does not constitute an endorsement by TVF&R.
Contact TVF&R's Emergency Manager:
Jeff Rubin: (503) 259-1199
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