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Program Management
- Organize, develop and administer your preparedness program
- Identify regulations that establish minimum requirements for your program
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Planning
- Gather information about hazards and assess risks
- Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA)
- Examine ways to prevent hazards and reduce risks
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Implementation
Write a preparedness plan addressing:
- Resource management
- Emergency response
- Crisis communications
- Information technology
- Employee assistance
- Incident management
- Training
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Testing and Exercises
- Test and evaluate your plan
- Define different types of exercises
- Learn how to conduct exercises
- Use exercise results to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan
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Program Improvement
- Identify when the preparedness program needs to be reviewed
- Discover methods to evaluate the preparedness program
- Utilize the review to make necessary changes and plan improvements
Five helpful steps to prepare your workplace
Preparedness Planning for Your Business Businesses can do much to prepare for the impact of the many hazards they face in today’s world including natural hazards like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and widespread serious illness such as a flu virus pandemic. Human-caused hazards include accidents, acts of violence by people and acts of terrorism. Examples of technology-related hazards are the failure or malfunction of systems, equipment or software.