• Employee Action plan
  • Conduct drills with staff
  • Create a plan on how to disburse information to employees
  • Operation plan for payroll, benefits, and Human Resource
  • Insurance protection based on the recurring natural disasters in your area
  • Insurance coverage (take pictures of all of your items and save purchasing receipts)
  • Deductible set aside
  • Data protection
  • Transition paper data into electronic data (paperless recordkeeping – taxes and financial records)
  • Secure the electronic data via Cloud base
  • Purchase a credible Cybersecurity
  • Access to physical currency
  • Set aside cash in multiple places (at workplace and home)
  • Place cash in a secured mobile/secured safe
  • Contact list
  • Laminated sheet of paper with
  • Emergency numbers
  • Family numbers
  • Employees numbers
  • Vendor numbers
  • Client numbers

Sources

  • (n.d.). Retrieved October 28, 2020, from https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/manage-your-business/prepare-emergencies
  • Adam.Smith@noaa.gov. (n.d.). Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series. Retrieved from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/time-series
  • Umair Irfan, B. (2017, December 28). Megadisasters devastated America in 2017. And they're only going to get worse. Retrieved September 09, 2020, from https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/28/16795490/natural-disasters-2017-hurricanes-wildfires-heat-climate-change-cost-deaths
  • Small Business Disaster Preparedness Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved September 09, 2020, from https://core.score.org/disaster-preparedness-recovery
  • Preparing for a Disaster (Taxpayers and Businesses). (n.d.). Retrieved September 09, 2020, from https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/preparing-for-a-disaster-taxpayers-and-businesses
  • Essential Steps to Preparedness. (n.d.). Retrieved September 09, 2020, from https://www.readyrating.org/How-It-Works/Essential-Steps-to-Preparedness
  • Business. (n.d.). Retrieved October 28, 2020, from https://www.ready.gov/business
  • Map
  • Laminated map of city, county, and state

For more information, contact Chris Cribbs at chris.cribbs@kysu.edu

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