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Preparedness for Micro & Small Businesses
(1-50 Employees)
Challenges:
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Micro & small businesses are challenged to balance limited resources (time, people, budget) with business demands.
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Traditional preparedness and business continuity has not focused on small business so most tools, systems, and training were not designed to fit the needs of small business.
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Small businesses tend to incorrectly believe that disasters won’t happen to them or there is nothing they can do to prepare. Less than 25% of SMBs total take any preparedness actions at all which contributes to the fact that they have the lowest survival rate of any business after a disruption or disaster. Even small incidents can put a small business out of business.
Recommendations:
Micro & small businesses should implement simple and flexible preparedness steps that:
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Provide large gains for small investment of time and resources focused on the most likely 3-5 threats.
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Utilize self-guided tools and easy to use checklists in times of crisis.
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Focus training on basic preparedness and response to protect customer and employee safety from the most likely threats.
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Ensure basic legal compliance.
Accinctus Solutions for Micro & Small Businesses:
- A no-cost initial assessment to identify your requirements based on regulatory and operational preparedness needs.
- Accinctus Preparedness for Micro & Small Businesses Seminar is a 2 hour seminar to educate small business owners on basic concepts of business preparedness, legal requirements, and a practical approach to establishing preparedness actions.
- Accinctus Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Workshop provides instruction and a simple template and toolset helping you develop your own EAP to ensure employee safety and compliance with OSHA requirements for businesses with more than 10 employees.
- Accinctus Preparedness Implementation Project for Micro & Small Business will help a small business develop a foundation preparedness program meeting regulatory and operational requirements using the concise Accinctus ADAPTABLE© model.
- Basic preparedness training to teach employees correct response actions in case of an emergency or disaster.