Ready Business โ Workplace Emergency Response Checklist: 14 Items
Prepare evacuation, sheltering, staff accounting, emergency roles, and first-response notification for a workplace.
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๐ก๏ธ Prepare Before an Emergency
Notes: Save your city or county emergency management contact and follow current instructions.
Save your city or county emergency management contact and follow current instructions.
Notes: Agree on a meeting point or short check-in message; keep contact information private.
Agree on a meeting point or short check-in message; keep contact information private.
Notes: Confirm safe water, medicines, and a charged radio or phone are accessible.
Confirm safe water, medicines, and a charged radio or phone are accessible.
Notes: Review occupancy, access, hazardous materials, and local regulations.
Review occupancy, access, hazardous materials, and local regulations.
Notes: Identify deputies for each shift or site.
Identify deputies for each shift or site.
Notes: Include visitors and employees with access needs.
Include visitors and employees with access needs.
Notes: Follow hazard-specific local instructions and applicable law.
Follow hazard-specific local instructions and applicable law.
โ ๏ธ Respond Safely When Needed
Notes: Test alarms and employee contact lists.
Test alarms and employee contact lists.
Notes: Include contractors and relevant shift patterns.
Include contractors and relevant shift patterns.
Notes: Follow workplace safety and fire code requirements.
Follow workplace safety and fire code requirements.
Notes: Provide location, nature of incident, and hazards.
Provide location, nature of incident, and hazards.
๐ Recover, Maintain & Review
Notes: Do not re-enter a building to search without trained responders.
Do not re-enter a building to search without trained responders.
Notes: Preserve legally required reports.
Preserve legally required reports.
Notes: Recheck routes, assembly points, and responsibilities.
Recheck routes, assembly points, and responsibilities.
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Prepare evacuation, sheltering, staff accounting, emergency roles, and first-response notification for a workplace.
Follow current alerts and instructions from local officials. Hazards, climate, geography, access requirements, and household needs can change which actions are appropriate.
Important Safety and Scope Notes
This practical checklist is an independent, English-language adaptation of the Ready.gov preparedness topic. It does not reproduce FEMA publications and is not endorsed by FEMA or any U.S. government agency.
Use this checklist to organize preparations and recovery tasks. In an active emergency, follow the latest official instructions rather than relying on a static checklist.
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