Business Drills
Please help support YOUR community as we ALL prepare together to help our businesses prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster.
During the 2011 Drill Down for Safety, the School of Ballet Arts "performed" an evacuation drill. They also took the time to discuss emergency preparedness and some things to do during a disaster. In 2012, the dance studio plans to step up their preparedness by participating in the Drill Down for Safety event again and by creating an emergency plan. Good job!
After a disaster, many businesses never recover enough to open their doors again. It is vital for the recovery of a community for its business sector to be resilient enough to get back to business as rapidly as possible. Economic recovery can only happen when businesses are open and people have gone back to work.
Businesses can get involved in several ways:
Businesses can get involved in several ways:
- Get prepared for a disaster. Make a plan for your business to quickly recover. The Utah Division of Emergency Management, through its Be Ready Utah initiative offers free preparedness training to businesses. Please fill out the form attached to this page if you are interested in participating in this free training.
- Participate in the Lindon City day of drilling. Practice your own business emergency plan. You can do a fire drill, a communications drill, an earthquake drill, for example. A Lindon City Drill Committee member will be happy to help guide you through the process of planning your drill.
- Show your support for the city-wide day of drilling. Put a "Lindon City Drill Down for Safety" sign in your business window. A member of the planning committee will be happy to deliver a sign to you. Request your poster through the form below.
- Sponsor the Lindon City, city-wide day of drilling. Funds raised are used to offset the price of advertising including the hundreds of yard signs used throughout the city.
Get Your Business Ready For Any Kind of Disaster at
Free National Preparedness Month Webinar Series
This summer millions of business across the country were forced to close their doors in the aftermath of power outages, approaching wildfires, Hurricane Isaac, and flooding caused by tropical storms. Business interruptions, even if it lasts just a few hours, cost business owners greatly in terms of lost productivity and profits.
You can get help with your own business preparedness planning through a series of free webinars hosted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery. The September series is presented in collaboration with FEMA’s Ready Campaign, as part of National Preparedness Month. SBA wants to help business owners take charge of the well-being of their own companies, the safety of their employees, and the sustenance of their local economies by being prepared to rebound quickly from any kind of disaster.
Here’s a list of the webinars for the remainder of this month, held each Wednesday in September at 2 p.m. ET:
Sept. 12: “Protecting Your Organization by Preparing Your Employees”
Sept. 19: “Utilization of Social Media During a Crisis”
Sept. 26: “Surviving a Crisis, Large or Small: Real Life Lessons Learned” Business owners who recovered from disasters discuss their proactive emergency planning.
A question and answer session will follow each of the presentations. Go to http://www2.agilityrecovery.com/npm to register for any of the webinars.
SBA has partnered with Agility to offer business continuity strategies through their “PrepareMyBusiness” website. Visit www.preparemybusiness.org to access past webinars and for useful preparedness tools.
You can get help with your own business preparedness planning through a series of free webinars hosted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery. The September series is presented in collaboration with FEMA’s Ready Campaign, as part of National Preparedness Month. SBA wants to help business owners take charge of the well-being of their own companies, the safety of their employees, and the sustenance of their local economies by being prepared to rebound quickly from any kind of disaster.
Here’s a list of the webinars for the remainder of this month, held each Wednesday in September at 2 p.m. ET:
Sept. 12: “Protecting Your Organization by Preparing Your Employees”
Sept. 19: “Utilization of Social Media During a Crisis”
Sept. 26: “Surviving a Crisis, Large or Small: Real Life Lessons Learned” Business owners who recovered from disasters discuss their proactive emergency planning.
A question and answer session will follow each of the presentations. Go to http://www2.agilityrecovery.com/npm to register for any of the webinars.
SBA has partnered with Agility to offer business continuity strategies through their “PrepareMyBusiness” website. Visit www.preparemybusiness.org to access past webinars and for useful preparedness tools.
