Disaster Planning Tools
Open for Business
Open for
Business, from the Institute of Business & Home Safety, is a comprehensive
interactive disaster planning toolkit. The easy-to-use website helps business owners
reduce the potential for loss should disaster strike, and reopen quickly if they are
forced to close. This creates a savings for the business and also benefits the employees
and customers who rely on it.
Open for Business includes an assessment tool that helps the business determine its susceptibility to natural disasters wherever it has facilities and provides information to minimize damage. The toolkit also includes materials to help businesses organize critical information and review essential operations, both of which lead to development of a continuity plan.
DisasterSafety.org
The latest generation of the Institute for Business & Home Safety website offers a
new tool for curbing property losses. DisasterSafety.org
is ZIP code-based to give users
a list of specific retrofit projects to help reduce the risks associated with local
natural hazards and maintenance-related failures.
Business Continuity Training
Because preparing for a disaster can be a daunting task for time-strapped entrepreneurs, the Institute
of Business & Home Safety has designed a free e-learning series to maximize the time and budgets
of small and mid-sized business owners. The training breaks the process of creating a business
continuity and disaster recovery plan into eight modules that provide hands-on instruction.
Users can register their email address to track their progress and create automatic reminders
that will help them complete their plan. The series is now available at
http://www.disastersafety.org/OFB_Training/.


