Private Sector Preparedness Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week 2/8/10: Prepare your office for the winter season by storing rock salt, a snow shovel, emergency food and a weather radio. View more winter weather tips at: www.fema.gov/hazard/winter/wi_before.shtm.
Tip of the Week 2/1/10: Develop and practice for emergencies at work with employees by reviewing your office emergency plan. www.ready.gov/business/plan/emerplanning.html.
Tip of the Week 1/25/10: Create an emergency plan for your organization’s financial and critical records. Click here to develop an emergency financial aid kit: www.operationhope.org/smdev/lf1.php?id=187.
Tip of the Week 1/18/2010: Prepare your employees before, during and after an earthquake with FEMA Earthquake tips. For more information, visit www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/index.shtm.
Tip of the Week 1/11/2010: Participate in Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training to support community and business preparedness efforts. For more information, visit: https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/.
Tip of the Week 1/4/2010: Place a weather radio or television in an accessible place for employees to readily monitor severe weather conditions. View active weather alerts at www.NOAA.gov.
Tip of The Week 12/28/09: Businesses damaged or destroyed by disasters can prepare their tax documents using the IRS Disaster Losses Tool kit. Download the toolkit today: www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2194b.pdf
Tip of the Week 12/21/2009: Support employee volunteer efforts and encourage them to give back to their communities. Visit www.serve.gov to volunteer today.
Tip of the Week 12/14/09: Give the Gift of Preparedness: a weather radio, CPR lessons or emergency kits for your family, pets and car. For more preparedness gift giving ides, visit: www.ready.gov/business/plan/emersupply.html
Tip of the Week 12/7/09: Ensure that your business insurance covers all hazards including floods, wind, fire and other emergencies. www.fema.gov/rebuild/insurance.shtm
Tip of the Week 11/30/2009: Protect your business by using noncombustible or flame retardant materials to decorate your office for the holidays. www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/focus/holiday.shtm
Tip of the Week 11/23/2009: Review and update your primary and backup payroll, IT network, staff contact lists and vendor systems to prepare for potential disruptions over the holidays. www.ready.gov/business
Tip of the Week 11/16/09: Just a few inches of water can cause tens of thousands of dollars in damage to your home or business. Visit www.floodsmart.gov to see how you can protect your investment.
Tip of the Week 11/9/09: Veteran-owned companies and other small businesses can learn how to register to work with FEMA to support local disaster responses at: www.fema.gov/business/contractor.shtm.
Tip of the Week 11/2/09: Install dual sensor smoke alarms and residential fire sprinklers to protect your home business. Click here for more information: www.ready.gov/business/plan/planfiresafety.html.
Tip of the Week 10/26/2009: Educate and train your employees to avoid social engineering, phishing or email scams to ensure data integrity on your network. Learn more about DHS Cyber Security programs by clicking this link: www.dhs.gov/files/programs/cybersecurity.shtm.
Tip of the Week 10/19/09: Protect your computer systems by using encrypted web sites with secure socket layers (SSL), https addresses and closed padlock icons. For more cyber security resources, visit: www.us-cert.gov
Tip of the Week 10/13/09: National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Update your evacuation plans to include people with disabilities and special needs. For more preparedness resources, visit: www.disabilitypreparedness.gov/ppp/workprep.htm
Tip of the Week 10/05/09: Check your office for fire hazards, test fire alarms and extinguishers, and practice an escape route in support of Fire Prevention Week. For more details visit: www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/focus/.
Tip of the Week 9/28/09: Assess which staff, materials, procedures and equipment are absolutely necessary to stay in operation after an emergency. (www.ready.gov/business/plan/planning.html )
Tip of the Week 9/21/09: Make hand sanitizer available to employees and customers to reduce the spread of illnesses like H1N1 flu. Visit www.flu.gov for more ideas on how to prepare your organization for the fall flu season.
Tip of the Week 9/15/09: Learn ways to protect people, business property, and building structures and prevent business loss from a natural disaster. Find training and resources at www.fema.gov/privatesector/training.shtm
Tip of the Week 9/8/09: Understand when to evacuate or shelter in place, and establish a system for communicating instructions to your employees and customers. Make sure to plan how you will communicate with people who are deaf and hard of hearing, or who do not speak English. Visit www.Ready.gov/business for tips on how to develop your plans.
Tip of the Week of 8/31/09: Keep a current copy of your critical business files on an easily portable external storage device, such as a thumb drive or CD-ROM that you can take with you in an evacuation. Also consider using a remote server to minimize interruptions if your facilities are impacted by flood, fire, power outage or other hazard.
Last Modified: Friday, 05-Feb-2010 07:43:19 EST