Plan Ahead
Preparing for natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires, is best accomplished by a team of employees familiar with your facility and its local surroundings. Travelers customers can log in to obtain our Disaster Preparedness and Business Continuity Management Guide and Sample Plan to assist with creating a natural disaster and business continuity plan for their organization.
Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) DisasterSafety.org
Travelers has formed an alliance with the IBHS to offer our customers Open for Business® Disaster Recovery Business Planning Tool. This Internet-based tool can help you determine the natural disaster risks that exist in your location, assist you when you begin to develop a recovery plan, plus create disaster recovery plans that would be available from anywhere in the country should your facility (and recovery plan) not be accessible. Customers can log in to the Risk Control Customer Portal to access this tool at no cost. Find the link on Risk Management Resouces - Alliances or Emergency Preparedness - Plan Ahead.
FEMA – Prepare for a Disaster
FEMA provides many resources to help you plan and prepare for disaster. Are You Ready? An in-depth guide to citizen preparedness is FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family and community preparedness.
Homeland Security’s Ready Business
Ready Business outlines common sense measures business owners and managers can take to start getting ready. It provides practical steps and easy-to-use templates to help you plan for your company's future.
Ready.Gov - Emergency Prepardedness and Business Continuity - Virtual Library
Is your business prepared for a disaster or other emergency? In the Risk Control Business Continuity Webinar replay, you can listen to a panel of industry experts discuss the best practices of Business Continuity Planning. Topics include an overview of the NFPA 1600 – Standard on Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs and best practices you need to know in order to develop and maintain a business continuity plan for your company. Download a copy of the standard and find other helpful resources available at Ready.Gov Virtual Library.
Department of Health and Human Services – Pandemic Flu
One-stop access to U.S. government avian and pandemic flu information.
Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP)
The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) is a standard-based voluntary assessment and accreditation process for state and local government programs responsible for coordinating prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery activities for natural and human-caused disasters. Accreditation is based on compliance with collaboratively developed national standards, the Emergency Management Standard by EMAP.
Business Continuity Webinar
Is your business prepared for a disaster or other emergency? In this Risk Control Webinar replay, you can listen to a panel of industry experts discuss the best practices of Business Continuity Planning.
