Emergency to-do list

• List phone numbers for police, fire and local ambulance services.
• Identify the nearest hospitals and agencies that cover disasters.
• Hold regular emergency-preparedness meetings.
• Stock battery-operated radios, flashlights, two-way radios and medical kits, masks and latex gloves.
• Develop a phone tree for managers.
• Assign someone (and a backup) to call authorities in an emergency.
• Consider purchasing business-interruption insurance.
• Make sure employees are prepared with a contingency plan for childcare and backup medicine.

Source: Employers Group, www.employersgroup.com