The Federal Emergency Management Agency established Ready.gov website in 2003 to prompt individuals and businesses to evaluate readiness for disaster and to provide tools for contingency planning. While the information is basic, post-incident reviews of individual and business readiness following calamities like Katrina and the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center attacks revealed most have not even considered the basic planning Ready.gov helps initiate.

Your assignment for this section (due by Monday, September 24) will be to download the Emergency Response Plan Template. Complete the plan using your current or a prior place of employment as the model for completing the template (use aliases if preferred). Consider your evaluation and answers as if you were charged with producing a working continuity and disaster plan for your place of employment. Be thorough but honest; if there’s an area you cannot prepare for or do not know how to address, include that and identify who/what would be necessary to fill that gap.

Turn in the completed Emergency Response Plan by end of class on Monday, September 24).

Specific resources discussed in class are available here.