Blog: Disaster Preparedness for Business—a Focus in September

In recognition of National Preparedness Month, On Scene Emergency Management Solutions is offering businesses and institutions a free review of their existing emergency, contingency, and recovery plans during September.

Preparing our families for unexpected events is extremely important, especially in Southern California. The crippling windstorms of December 2011, the tragic theater shooting in Colorado, and the brush fires striking the Western United States are reminders that disaster preparedness is more than stockpiling supplies and foodstuffs; making sure our local businesses and private institutions are resilient when catastrophe strikes is equally important.

According to the Insurance Information Institute 40 percent of businesses affected by natural or human-caused disasters never reopen. The slower economic anchors of a community reopen, the longer communities feel that things are back to normal. It is important for businesses to invest in their own preparedness, especially since major human and natural disasters will over extend emergency responders.

On Scene Emergency Management Solutions is based in Southern California and is passionate about providing a broad range of crisis, contingency, consequence, control, and communication planning and management solutions to meet the needs of forward thinking private and public sector entities. They work with clients who are well versed in their fields but lack the time, skills, or perhaps even motivation to fully immerse themselves in emergency preparedness and management endeavors.

The On Scene Emergency Management Solutions Team is comprised of battle-tested emergency managers with enough experience to lead, wisdom to prepare, humility to collaborate, and confidence to respond. They come from renowned public and private sector agencies and are intimately experienced with the challenges faced by organizations when developing, validating, and implementing comprehensive emergency plans.

On Scene Emergency Management Solutions prides itself on its foundation of “up through the ranks” trained and experienced planners, instructors, responders and leaders with extensive grassroots, regional and national governmental, non-governmental, labor, private business and nonprofit networks.

To get a free analysis of existing emergency plans, business owners and organizational leaders may visit onsceneconsulting.com or call (213) 537-2711.