SHRM survey: Disaster preparedness becoming a full-time job

SHRM survey: Disaster preparedness becoming a full-time job

11/22/05 7:30 AM
Disaster preparedness is a full-time job
By Kathy Gurchiek

Whether fire drills or shelter-in-place drills, emergency communication plans or contingency business plans, most organizations have formal disaster preparedness plans, and HR typically plays some part in forming those plans, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey report released Nov. 22.

Preparedness has taken on new meaning in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Wilma along the Gulf Coast in August and October and a succession of tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest in November.

Whatever the extent of HR involvement in this process, SHRM survey research specialist Shawn Fegley writes in the Societys 2005 Disaster Preparedness Survey Report, there is a need to continuously modify, evaluate and communicate disaster preparedness plans.

More than three-fourths of survey respondents said HR played some role in their organizations disaster preparedness plans.
Not surprisingly, that role depended largely on the size of the organization: Large organizations (500 or more employees) and medium-size organizations (100-499 employees) were more likely than organizations with 99 or fewer employees to have formal plans. "



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