Disaster Recovery & Relief

Management & Recovery Information

• Ready Business:  Fema, Red Cross and Ad Council Launch Ready Business PSAS to urge Small Businesses to prepare in advance of an emergency.
• Plan to Stay in Business:  Business continuity planning must account for all hazards.
• Open for Business:  A disaster protection and recovery planning toolkit for the small to mid-sized business.
• Ready.org: Tools for being ready for any kind of emergency, be it hurricane, tornado, flood, utility disruption or manmade disaster.
• Emicus.com is a website produced and managed by the U.S. Emergency Operations Center, Inc. (USEOC)
• Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages from the National Disaster Education Coalition
• American Red Cross: Prepare Your Workplace and Employees
• FDA: Retail Food Stores and Food Service Establishments Food Security & Preventive Measures
• USA.gov: how to prepare a disaster supply kit, create a plan, and know the signs of an approaching tornado

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• FEMA Emergency Management Guidebook (PDF)
  The publication can be downloaded here or be faxed or mailed directly to NACS members.
• FEMA Disaster Relief Application (PDF)
  The application can also be downloaded and completed from the FEMA Website.

Swine Flu Resources

• Preventing the Flu: Good Health Habits Can Help Stop Germs
• CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Infection; State count.
• CDC H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Updates
• World Health Organization (WHO) Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR)
• OSHA: Preparing workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic
• The Emergency Email Network Inc.
• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): Resources for Restaurateurs
• Practical Pandemic Preparation and topical webinars
• Planning for 2009 H1N1 Influenza
• 10 Ways to Stay Healthy

Pandemic Flu

• Take the Lead: Working together to prepare now; contains toolkit, checklists, fact sheets, sample E-mail, posters, and sample newsletters.
• Pandemicflu.gov:Get Informed and Be Prepared. One-stop access to U.S. Goverment avian and pandemic flu Information, managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Questions & Answers
• Planning Checklists
• Planning Tools
• Where You Live
• EPA: What is EPA doing to prepare and respond?
• CDC Resources on Influenza

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• EPA Hurricane Website
• Protect the Environment: Report Spills and Environmental Violations