This audio conference was recorded on Tuesday - June 30, 2009

Credits:

This audio conference qualifies for Continuance of Certification (COC) credit. CSPs will earn 0.05 COC points for attending this audio conference.

Description:

Combustible dust explosions, wildfires, earthquakes, chemical releases, workplace violence, pandemic illness – any one of these can change your business in an instant.

Are you prepared? Disaster can strike at any time, and good preparation can mean the difference between a quick recovery and closing your doors forever. Even more important, it can mean the difference between lives saved and lives lost.

Smart planning also means preparing for the aftermath - how quickly and well would your business bounce back after a natural disaster or other catastrophe? Whether it is your business alone or the entire community, you need a plan to respond and to recover.

Order this audio conference recording, when our emergency planning expert will discuss how to prepare your workplace for a disaster – both response and recovery – so that you and your employees can get back to business as usual as quickly as possible.

Speaker(s):

Howard Mavity, Esq., is a partner with the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips, LLP. He has handled well over 200 incidents of union activity and over 270 OSHA fatality cases in construction and general industry, ranging from dust explosions to building collapses. He has coordinated complex inspections involving multi-employer sites, corporatewide compliance, and issues involving criminal referral.

Mavity coordinates the firm’s Occupational Safety and Health Practice and Catastrophe Response. He also responds to virtually every type of day-to-day workplace inquiry, and has handled cases before the EEOC, OFCCP, and numerous other state and federal agencies. He frequently speaks to business associations, bar groups, and professional groups and lectures and conducts training for numerous private and governmental employers. He has been selected as a “Georgia Super Lawyer, Labor and Employment” since 2004.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The value of a detailed emergency response plan, and the important elements it should contain
• Why you need input from your community’s emergency management team, and how to get it
• What should happen after the immediate crisis has passed
• What logistics planning is, and why you need to be doing it
• How to track and control the resources you need to recover
• The steps to take now so your business can recover later, should the worst happen