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Tips on Preparedness
- Consult local building codes to ensure that your building meets current seismic safety standards.
- Conduct drills to ensure that your company's earthquake plan is effective. Revise plan as necessary.
- If your business is in a high-rise building, educate your employees about what to expect during an earthquake. Lower floors will shake rapidly during a major earthquake, much life low-rise buildings. On upper floors, movement will be slower, but the building will move farther from side to side.
- Secure and anchor equipment and furniture, including bookshelves, cabinets, computers, and typewriters.
- Hold workshops or host 'brown bag' seminars during the lunch hour on earth- quake preparedness topics, such as safety techniques, first aid and CPR, evacuation and damage assessment.
- Practice reaction to possible disaster scenarios.
- Include articles on the importance of workplace and home preparedness in employee newsletters.
- Prepare special bulletins and handouts for employees on preparing at work and at home.
Develop a business recovery plan on how to restore your business after a quake.
- Conduct a 'hazard hunt' to find potential dangers in your business setting.
- Obtain agreements with vendors and customers for post-earthquake operations.
- Develop an inventory of critical supplies and equipment.
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