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Now's the Time for Floods - Are You Ready? In advance is the best time to prepare. It gives you the opportunity to ask the right questions about the potential problems and investigate the best service provider for your operations. Jeff Baker of ServiceMaster gives you the questions to ask and the reasons to ask them in this article available here.

March E-News: Question and Answer Issue
March Business Emergency Planning Newsletter

February E-News: Nominate, Join the Summit, Heed the Advice ... and Don't Forget to Block that Cough
February Business Emergency Planning Newsletter.

January E-News: Stop Stupid Tricks, Gawker Lessons, No More Head Bobs. Read all about that and more in our January Business Emergency Planning Newsletter.

Big Freeze Lends Itself to Cold Survival Lessons—Florida recently was shocked into winter (their temps were comparable to Northeast Ohio temps some nights in December). In this article at Fresh Business Thinking, Aon Risk Solutions’ business continuity leader offers some valuable business weather-planning tips: Maintain contact with stakeholders, staff and customers to manage expectations around revised delivery dates or service availability. Think now about how to deal with backlog when weather improves. Constantly evaluate what business continuity plans work and where they don’t. Be fluid to ensure as much normalcy as possible.

December E-News: European Christmas Vacation Issue: Five Lessons to Learn (or Be Reminded Of). Read all about that and more in our December Business Emergency Planning Newsletter.

Power Outages Happen, Expect to Worsen—More than 75 percent of responding companies had a power outage in the last 12 years and more than 78 percent expect to have power problems in the next 12 months, as detailed in the Data Center Knowledge Report’s Power Protection Survey. It’s important to know plan for what your organization would do without power for a few hours, a day or longer. Of course, in many cases, you may not know how long it will be out—so plan that too. For example, do you keep your employees around just in case the power is restored or do you send them home and call them in early the next day? Start the conversation.

November E-News: Mysterious attachment test, power out, prepared vendor formula and more. Read all about that and more in our November Business Emergency Planning Newsletter.