Emergency Planning and Crisis Management

You can also discuss all of these issues with other HR professionals at the Community Center.

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 expertise to help shape disaster plans)

• Injured Employees: A Supervisor's Checklist

• How Malden Mills Industries Inc. coped with a fire that destroyed three of its 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 a shooting, 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 people cope 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