Small Business Resilience Toolkit
A toolkit to help your Small Business prepare for a disaster
About
The Small Business Resilience Toolkit provides a framework for
small businesses that may not have the time or resources to
create an extensive plan to recover from business interruptions.
This Toolkit is based on best practices and is designed to educate
you on basic business resilience activities and approaches.
These resources will guide your company toward addressing
preparedness issues, while building the flexibility to handle potential
business disruptions.
The Toolkit is designed to lead any business, even one with no
disaster experience or knowledge, towards greater resiliency. This
Toolkit includes basic tools focused on a business’s ability to be
informed and readily able to determine specific actions that will
enhance its resiliency against disasters and potential interruptions.
This toolkit will help you
• Identify the business activities that are essential for continued
operation during a disruption
• Plan for risks that affect your business
• Create an easy-to-use resiliency plan tailored to your business,
giving you a plan in the event of a disaster
Purpose
About 99% of businesses in every U.S. community are small; small
businesses employ over 50% of the private sector workforce.
Globally, small businesses are vital for the communities in
which they operate. Employees live in the community and so do
the customers they serve. Unfortunately, all communities are
susceptible to natural hazards, and businesses are vulnerable to
human-caused disruptions. The majority of small-to-medium sized
businesses are unprepared for disruptive events. Consequently,
communities become vulnerable when their economic base is hit
hard by disastrous events.
Research indicates that 40% of businesses never reopen after a
disaster, and 25% of business that do reopen fail within a year. The
Small Business Resilience Toolkit, and its Resiliency Framework,
is designed to help you increase your ability to survive and even
thrive after disasters such as a flood, earthquake, epidemic, power
outage, etc.
Getting started
After a disaster, many owners of small-to-medium sized businesses
learn one lesson the hard way: “I wish I had done something in
advance to prepare.” For them, they hadn’t planned soon enough.
It is not too late for you and your business to take action. Read
this Small Business Resilience Toolkit, pick one step, and then take
action! Your business will be better prepared. You owe it to your
business, your employees, your communities and yourself.
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