Crisis Management Insights
Read up on our emergency preparedness advice for business owners and employees alike.
“Prepare” is an Action Verb – Has Your Business Taken These Basic Actions?
Sometimes the terms “Are you prepared?” or “Has your business prepared an emergency plan?” are used so frequently that perhaps we take the term for granted. After all we DO have an emergency plan, don’t we? The word prepare is an action verb and the examples used to define it point us to some very useful reminders about developing, testing, and maintaining a proper state of readiness.
From the Book of Shamstradamus – Disaster Prognosticator
This is the first of a new series of short articles about emergency exercises and how you can improve your business or organization’s emergency plans. But first, I thought I would explain the catchy name of this blog.
How Did Your Covid-19 Test Drive Go?
My wife and I prepared for “shelter in place” as something we would do after an earthquake without power and running water. We had canned foods and dehydrated meals, extra propane, a first aid kit and a solar cell phone charger in our emergency kit. We always stock cold and flu medicine and Gatorade so we do not have to run to the store when we are sick. We were ready to rough it, looking at it as camping in our own home. But Covid-19 made us realize we need to take an all-hazards approach for building our emergency kit.
3 Simple Steps
There are three simple steps you want your employees to do during a crisis event.