TVSeattle Woodland Park Zoo WTO Committee Businesses are an important part of the community in which they reside. Businesses can help mitigate a disaster by doing what they can to prepare themselves for a disaster as well as getting involved more directly with Project Impact. Seattle Project Impact launched Seattle Business Disaster Mitigation, a program which includes a number of resources for all sizes of business, mentoring, short functional workshops and much more. A helpful worksheet for businesses to calculate their potential disaster costs. This checklist can help you decide what may be a threat to your business.
Businesses can contribute in a number of ways to their community.
Goes into quite a bit of detail, in its 67 pages, of the emergency management planning cycle. An article at the RiskVu website. Discusses why despite having a superior disaster recovery program, your organization's survival may hinge on how well your state and local emergency management planners respond to a crisis. Here are some tips on how to build a better partnership with your local government. Their magazines are online, but cost to read.