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 it’s 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 a disaster recovery planning tool Open for Business®. 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. Travelers customers can log in to use this resource at no cost.
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.
Download your free copy.
Deparment 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.