Emergency Planning and Crisis Management

Workforce has compiled several stories, checklists, and resources that mightbe help you prepare for and cope with emergencies, as well as relatedchallenges.

You can also discussall of these issues with other HR professionals at the CommunityCenter.

Emergency planning and recovery

Bioterrorism

Employee assistance and counseling

Military reserve issues

Discrimination

Layoffs and downsizing

Emergency planning and recovery

• An emergency planning checklist

  
  

• Communicating with Your Employees During a Crisis and Positively Managing Crisis Situations (articles)

  
  

• “Bracing For Emergencies” (discusses how HR can use its expertiseto help shape disaster plans)

  
  

• Injured Employees: A Supervisor’s Checklist

  
  

• How Malden Mills Industries Inc. coped with a fire that destroyed three ofits buildings and displaced 1,400 employees

  
  

• Each state’s emergency division (links)

  
  

• Emergency Management Guide for Business and Industry (PDF file)

  
  

• American Red Cross (link)

  
  

• What to Do in a Catastrophe (Steps to take in the unlikely event of ashooting, a plane crash, an earthquake, or a chemical exposure)

  
  

• Government information on disasters and emergencies; emergency medical services; environmental disasters (from the HHS)

  
  

• Standard Checklist Criteria For Business Recovery (from the U.S. government)

  
  

Bioterrorism

• Suspicious Mail and Anthrax

  
  

• What to look for in your mail (Washington Post item)

  
  

• Government information on biological, chemical and radiological weapons

  
  

• Government information on bioterrorism

  
  

Employee assistance and emotional counseling

• Employee Assistance (EAP) providers (paid list of vendors)

  
  

• “Facing Grief” (Workforce article describing how HR can help peoplecope with loss)

  
  

• “Expert answers” about bereavement and grief

  
  

• More on employee assistance (links to Workforce)

  
  

Military reserve and expat issues

• Gearing Up for Active Duty (Workforce article)

  
  

• Keeping Expats Safe (Workforce article)

  
  

• Resources for Expats and Expat Managers (Workforce article)

  
  

• More on expat management (links to Workforce)

  
  

Discrimination

• Religious harassment in the workplace and accommodating Muslim employees

  
  

• Legal Forum

  
  

• More on Discrimination and EEOC Compliance

  
  

Layoffs and downsizing

• More than downsizing articles, tips, and charts

  
  

• Calculate the Cost and Benefit of a Layoff

  
  

Compiled by Workforce’s Carroll Lachnit, Catherine Tharp, and Todd Raphael