Don Dressler Consulting

Basic- Cal/OSHA Emergency Action and Fire Plan. California requires every employer to have a plan dealing with disaster and safe evacuation of employees.
Better- Business Continuity Plan. A plan to get your firm back into profitable operation following interruption due to crisis or disaster.
Best Practice- Customer Focused Plan as a Competitive Advantage. Proactively work with key customers and suppliers to assure service during and after a disaster.

September is National Preparedness Month and, of course, preparing for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, fires and the floods that follow are things we know we should do, but …

…after all, you probably think you already have been through enough disaster what with the current recession, investment market and housing slump, 3 year drought, latest largest fire in Los Angeles County history and then failure of 100 year old water mains. What’s
next?

Click on chart above to zoom.

California Area Earthquake Probability:
More than 99%
Over the next 30 years for one or more 6.7 or greater quakes causing extensive damage. This map show distribution of likelihood throughout California.

Red = 10% or greater within 3 miles
Yellow = 1% to 10%
Green = .1 to 1%
Blue = less than .1%
San Francisco Region = 63%
Los Angeles Region = 67%

Don Dressler Consulting can help you:

Develop a Cal/OSHA compliant Emergency Action and Fire Plan.
Provide resources for your employees for emergency family plans and guides to help them prepare a family emergency supply kit.
Assist you in preparing a Business Continuity Plan – to get back into business after a disaster or other interruption.
Advise on the Best Practices of a Customer Oriented Plan to make competitive advantage of your firm’s preparedness to help customers in their operations.

October 15, 2009 will be the next public event promoting earthquake awareness throughout the state, ‘The Great California Shakeout”. The program will involve media, schools, utilities, many business firms and groups and government agencies. Visit the program’s web site at www.shakeout.org. You will find a wide variety of resources for your firm and your employees.

Another resource: The US Department of Homeland Security’s web site: www.ready.gov.

A final observation: most of us living in California have heard for years that “the big one” will come. Most of us have tuned it out, taken it for granted, or “we’ll get around to it.” Hello! We are now observing the 140th anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Quake, which was The San Francisco Quake before 1906 occurred. Almost every building in this East San Francisco Bay town was wrecked. Injuries and damage occurred from San Jose, Oakland to San Francisco.

Scientists using excavations and radiocarbon dating have proof that this fault erupts at a magnitude 6.3 or greater quake in intervals between 96 to 160 years, averaging 138 years. It is now 141 years since the 1868 Quake.

Same song, same story: Southern San Andreas Fault; San Jacinto Fault; Northern San Andreas Fault, Elsinore Fault; Calaveras Fault.

We at Don Dressler Consulting most of all encourage you to take these suggestions seriously. We are here to help. Please call us at 949-533-3742. We make planning and implementation easy.

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