Seconds Matter in an Emergency
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It is just as important to keep your business, organization, or agency as prepared as your family. Please use this simple checklist of items to consider when preparing your emergency plans:
Staff
- Compile all emergency contact information for all staff, include it in your emergency plans.
- Store it in a shared access point so more than one person can get to it.
- Print a hard copy to store in your emergency Go-Kit. *Make sure to assign someone to update the hard copy list when there are revisions.
Clients/Customers
- Compile all appropriate contact information, include it in your emergency plans.
- Store it in a shared access point so more than one person can get to it.
- Print a hard copy to store in your emergency Go-Kit. *Make sure to assign someone to update the hard copy list when there are revisions.
Well-Being Care
- Create a system for providing medical and mental health services to staff once emergency has ended and you are in recovery.
- Consider an Employee Assistance Program.
Safety Assessment
- Do an audit of risk factors for your business, organization, agency identifying all potential risks.
- Create a safety committee to look at mitigation strategies to help limit the identified risks.
- Consider all natural and man-made types of incidents.
Inventory
- Create lists of all hardware, software, and system embedded services.
- Ensure you have a point of contact for each item, to include a 24/7 contact.
- Create a list of all vendors, to include a 24/7 contact.
- Compile all data to include ID numbers necessary for daily operations.
Contingency Planning
- Identify an alternate location to provide services if your primary location is not available.
- Identify an alternate form of communications in the event you do not have access to email.
- Identify a redundant secure data system that allows multiple ways to access client information if the main office is not accessible.
Run, Hide, Fight
It is always good to have a plan in place before an emergency. Here is some information on how to prepare for a violent threat, and what action to take in the event of this emergency.
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