We integrate all work into the 4 stages of Emergency Management!

The 4 stages to a good emergency program include;

• PREPARE: Preparation is needed in order to survive a disaster as well as to begin the recovery. Recovery planning begins in the prepardnes stage! This includes a good Risk Analysis, creating an Emegrency Operations Plan with supporting documents, and an integrated Business Recovery Plan.

• RESPOND: When the disaster strikes, the differance between being preparde and loss of life and business can often be measures in minutes. What you do in the Preparedness stage will many times increase your organization's ability to protetct your employees and customers, and to begin to recover faster than your competitors.

• RECOVER: Recovery can take a long time. Your customers need your services as oon as possible. How soon will you be able to provide those services will depend on how well your organizational preparations were conducted in the first two stages.

• MITIGATE: Mitigation takes place at every step of the process. If a simple solution can be found for a vulnerability, taking steps to lessen or eleminate the vulnerability will cost you far less in the Mitigation stage than in the Recovery stage.