Disasters don’t wait for victims to get off work before they strike. Employers should treat the potential for an emergency in the office like they would in their own homes. I have compiled some good ideas and bad ideas for office preparedness.
Good idea: Take preventative action where you can. Require identification tags for anyone in any restricted area. Have cameras and recorders installed in high-risk or vulnerable areas.
Bad idea: Make everyone wear cameras and place identification tags on all vulnerable areas.
Good idea: Keep enough 72-hour kits on hand for an emergency shut-in situation.
Bad idea: Replace 72-hour kits with 72′, model Corvette kits.
Good idea: Encourage employees to receive first-aid training so they can use a 72-hour kit on someone else if they need to.
Bad idea: Encourage employees to receive combat training so they can take a 72-hour kit from someone else if they need to.
Good idea: Try to anticipate and be prepared for every possible scenario; plan for the worst.
Bad idea: Purchase harpoons, missiles, or similar items to defend yourself against colossal lizards, gorillas, and/or Cloverfields. (If any of these kinds of creatures turn out to be real and destroy your business, send the bill to Office Zone, Attn: Taylor Morgan)
Good idea: Employ a professional to advise colleagues about emergency signs, procedures, exits and all safety protocol.
Bad idea: Employ a psychic to advise colleagues about apocalyptic obliteration, alien invasions, unstoppable biochemical outbreaks, and all world-ending devastations. Our emergency 72-hour kits are top-of-the-line, but still not equipped to handle things of this nature. In the event of such an occurrence, emergency preparedness is futile, and bystanders are encouraged to panic hysterically; it might be the only time that this course of action is just as good as anything else.
Be ready; not just for insurance purposes, but because your employees and their families deserve it. Disasters happen everywhere. What the employer does to prepare can make all the difference in the world–just ask the families of the trapped coal miners from Utah.
Taylor
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