Ready At Work
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When an emergency strikes, will your business be ready?
Power outages, brown-outs or surges can affect your daily business operations. Many disasters, like flooding, severe storms, hurricanes or tornadoes, can strike quickly and with little or no warning. Medical emergencies – heart attacks, sudden cardiac arrest, seizures – can also strike with little or no advance warning.
For businesses large and small, being prepared for an emergency makes good business sense. And so is helping your employees and their families to prepare at home.
Our Red Cross Ready Workplace program can help you plan for emergencies. We’ve developed a five-part program which, when fully implemented, makes your business better prepared to withstand a natural, man-made or medical emergency.
The five key elements of the Red Cross Ready Workplace are:
In addition to the inherent benefits of being a Red Cross Ready Workplace, companies achieving this designation also benefit by:
- Receiving incident specific preparedness tips from the American Red Cross Connecticut Regional Chapter
- Enhancing employee relations by demonstrating concern for their well-being with our Be Red Cross Ready program
- Increased community visibility through the publication of joint media releases announcing your Red Cross Ready Workplace designation
- A listing on the American Red Cross Connecticut Regional Chapter’s “Ready Workplaces” website at www.ctredcross.org
To learn more about Ready at Work, please contact Joe Kuzma at the American Red Cross Connecticut Regional Chapter at (860) 678-2826 or Kuzmajoe@usa.redcross.org.
To learn more about the value-add of workplace training provided by the Red Cross, click on this five-minute video: Workplace Emergencies Happen Every Day.......Are your Employees and Your Organization Prepared?
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