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Accessible Emergency Plans

As part of the USDA TARGET Discovery Series, watch this Webcast to learn how to develop emergency evacuation and shelter-in-place plans that take into account the needs of all individuals. Anyone may develop a new disability during an emergency, so find ways to create and improve plans and procedures that truly fit everyone.

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Emergency Evacuation of People with Physical Disabilities From Buildings

This report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education offers recommendations to improve available data, building and life safety codes, evacuation technologies and evacuation practices for people with physical disabilities. This document is in Word format.
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Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry

A FEMA guide providing step-by-step advice on how to create and maintain a comprehensive emergency management program.
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Emergency Preparedness Guide for Transit Employees

This guide covers what to do in an emergency situation on the job and at home.
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Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Environmental or Chemical Sensitivities

Following a major disaster, an excess of smoke, dust, molds, gas leaks and diesel from idling rescue vehicles can cause serious reactions in people with environmental or chemical sensitivities. This fact sheet provides information about important emergency supplies for people who are sensitive to certain chemical and environmental exposures. This link opens a PDF document.
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Emergency Preparedness for Businesses

Provides the Emergency Management Guide for Businesses that outlines steps to take during terrorism-related events including instructions to building occupants, actions to be taken by facility management and first responder notification procedures.

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Emergency Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Offices

Provides information for facilities managers and people who might need alternate forms of communication to be notified of an emergency situation or in being the evacuated from a building. Information includes examples of equipment available as well as suggestions on notification and evacuation procedures. This guide can be downloaded in PDF or Text formats.

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Employers' Guide to Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans

Guide for employers on how to include people with disabilities in their emergency evacuation planning. Includes a checklist for developing, maintaining and implementing an evacuation plan.
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Guides for Hospitals on Emergency Evacuation, Assessment & Recovery

These guides help hospital planners and administrators make important decisions about how to protect patients and health care workers during emergencies. The Hospital Evacuation Decision Guide and the Hospital Assessment and Recovery Guide help hospitals assess the physical components of a hospital when a natural or manmade disaster, terrorist attack, or other catastrophic event threatens the soundness of a facility. These guides also look at how hospital personnel have coped under emergency situations in the past to better understand what factors should be considered when making evacuation, shelter-in-place and reoccupation decisions.

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How to Plan for Workplace Emergencies & Evacuations

This booklet provides an overview of workplace-related emergency planning for disasters. This link opens a PDF document.
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Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace & the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Fact sheet from the EEOC that provides information about Titles I and V of the ADA and pandemic planning in the workplace. Includes questions and answers to help employers plan how to manage their workforce in an ADA-compliant manner before and during a pandemic.
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Preparing the Workforce for Everyone: Accounting for the Needs of People with Disabilities

A template of emergency preparedness guidelines for federal agencies from the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness in the Workplace.
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Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning

A report from the National Council on Disability (NCD) which looks at the experiences of people with disabilities and how their access to disaster services could be improved by including them in emergency management planning.
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Workplace Safety for People with Disabilities

An information sheet provided by the NFPA Center for High-Risk Outreach. This link opens a PDF document.
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