Build Resilience, Step by Step
Outsmart Disaster gives you the tools to protect your business. Download our Resiliency Roadmap to start building your personalized plan. Our goal is to help you protect your business by gaining risk assessment skills and learning how to safeguard your business assets.
Your guide to a customized plan
Copies of forms to complete your Resiliency Roadmap
Six Simple Steps to Disaster Preparedness
Your Resiliency Roadmap is the umbrella you keep ready when skies are clear, so you can open it the moment gray skies are a threat. By preparing now, you’ll have a reliable shield to protect your business from whatever challenges come your way. Start now with our downloadable booklet and forms to guide you every step of the way.
Recognize Potential Threats
Establish Clear Communication Channels
Understand Your Operations
Plan for Hazard Mitigation
Strengthen Insurance and Financial Preparedness
Test Your Emergency Response Plan
Key Resources
| Hazard Mitigation Planning Unit (CalOES) | Helps you find your local Hazard Mitigation Plan |
| National Risk Index (FEMA) | Interactive mapping tool to assess the likelihood of different types of natural hazards in your community |
| MyHazards (CalOES) | Discover hazards in your area and learn steps to reduce personal risk |
| Know Your Alerts & Warnings (FEMA) | List of common alerts in multple languages |
| CalAlerts | How to sign up for emergency notifications in your county |
| MyShake App | Keeps you informed about earthquakes in real time using data from your phone's sensors |
| Ready.Gov Crisis Communications Plans | Review this resource to better understand how your business can respond promptly, accurately, and confidently during an emergency and days that follow |
| Strengthen Your Cybersecurity (SBA) | Learn about cybersecurity threats and how your business can protect itself |
| Protective Actions (FEMA) (CalOES) | Research-validated advice that anyone can take to prepare for, keep safe during, and recover from a disaster |
| Ready.Gov | Offer business leaders a step-by-step guide to build disaster preparedness within an organization |
| Disaster Relief Loan Guarantees (IBank) | Incentivizes lenders to help small businesses who have suffered losses from a disaster by backing up to 95 percent of the loan. Available after a Governor's Emergency Declaration |
| Preparing for a Disaster (IRS) | Tips on how to prepare financially for a disaster |
| Ready.Gov Emergency Response Plan | Tips and resources for developing an emergency plan |
| Ready.Gov Business Employee Training | Guide on how to train employees to become familiar with evacuation, shelter-in-place, lock downs, etcetera |
| Ready.Gov Emergency Supply Kit | Tips or what you should keep in a basic disaster supply kit |
| Listos California (CalOES) | Provides Californian families and households with disaster readiness tools and resources in different languages |
California Department of Insurance Small Business Guide to Commercial Insurance | Describes policy types, gives examples and has helpful glossary |
| Document and Insure Your Property (FEMA) | Fact sheet explaining how to understand coverage terms, settlement options, how to file a claim, and qualify for discounts |
| Emergency Resources | |
| Wildfire Preparedness | |
Flooding Prepareness Checklist (SBA) | Flood Preparedness |
Cybersecurity Topics- Fact Sheet Customized Cyberplanner (Federal Communications Commission) CISA Cyber Guidance for Small Businesses (Homeland Security) | Cybersecurity Preparedness |
| Active Shooter Preparedness | |
Earthquake Preparedness Checklist (SBA) | Earthquake Preparedness |
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