Tag: hurricane preparedness

Are You Ready for EHSDA’s Emergency Preparedness Week?

Join us next week (Sept. 18-22) for a full week of free online events and digital resources around emergency preparedness that you can use to plot your safety leadership strategy. Register for event sessions today. Monday, Sept. 18 Educational Webinar | Is Your Emergency Action Plan Up to Date? Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Speaker: Brandy Zadoorian, CSP, CSD, CEO […]

Back to Basics: Hurricanes 101

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine hurricanes and how companies must prepare for the increased number of storms this season. You need to prepare now for peak hurricane season, as forecasters have upped the number of named storms, […]

Get Ready for Peak Hurricane Season

Are you prepared for the peak of hurricane season? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) still expects an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season despite a quiet season so far. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued an updated outlook August 4, and NOAA still expects 14 to 20 named tropical storms, 6 to 10 hurricanes, and 3 […]

Back to Basics: Hurricane Preparedness

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine hurricane preparedness and how to develop emergency response plans for when hurricanes and other emergencies occur. Hurricanes are a form of tropical storms that have circulating air and wind speeds between […]

Back to Basics: Get Ready for Hurricane Response With a Tabletop Exercise

Back to Basics is a new weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine using a tabletop exercise to test your hurricane preparedness. When it comes to hurricane preparedness, you can have all your bases covered, but if you don’t test to see how […]