1. It’s free. It’s easy. The time to prepare is now.

2. Agenda Why Prepare? What is Ready Rating? Highlights Since Launch
Members
123 Assessment
Next Steps
Show You Care
Program Sponsors

3. Insurance coverage may not save the day!
Why Prepare?
Up to 40% of businesses fail following a natural or human-caused disaster
94% of small business owners believe a disaster could seriously disrupt their business within the next two years
Disasters come in many forms: hurricanes, tornados, snow storms, power outages, floods, medical emergency, death of a key employee…
Insurance coverage may not save the day!

4. Why Prepare?
4 out of 5 businesses fail after the loss of a key executive
One-third of businesses surveyed have no business continuity plan
Here’s the good news: 82% of businesses agree - “If someone could make it easy for me to be prepared, I’d do it.”

5. What is Ready Rating? The Ready Rating Program:
The first emergency readiness program of its kind

6. Program Overview
Designed to allow businesses, schools and organizations to dramatically improve their level of preparedness
Quantifies an organization’s preparedness with a proprietary assessment tool
Generates customized reports with confidential feedback to help members
Enables creation of a customized Emergency Response Plan through an easy, on-line, self-paced tool
Free, thanks to our generous sponsors

7. Highlights Membership has tripled and is growing
Members love Ready Rating!
93% of Ready Rating members rate the service as good to excellent
Members are taking action!
75% of members have updated their plans due to Ready Rating
70% of Ready Rating members have educated their employees about preparedness at work
Members have increased their scores – some by as much as 42%
1794
total members
1357 Businesses/
Organizations
437 Schools

8. Who Are the Members? Businesses – small to large
Schools – public and private
Non-profits
Healthcare organizations
Financial institutions
Insurance agencies
Retailers
Manufacturers
Real estate agencies

9. Keeping Good Company
Members include:

10. 123 Assessment Key steps: 1. Commit to preparing
Join the Red Cross Ready Rating program
Complete an online assessment to determine readiness level
2. Assess emergencies and their impact
Understand possible threats to your facility / business and assess possible impact

11. 123 Assessment 3. Develop or enhance your Emergency response plan
Create an action plan for before, during and after emergencies
4. Practice your plan
Integrate preparedness in your organizational culture
5. Show your community you care
Commit to support overall community preparedness

12. Ready Rating Score Card
A score card is generated each time the 123 Assessment is completed.
The score card provides:
A unique quantification of your organization’s preparedness level
Enables tracking of your progress

13. What Do I Do Next?
Improve your Ready Rating score with the following free tools:
Next Steps Report
Emergency Response Planner Tool
Peer Comparison Report
Resource Center

14. Member Next Steps Report
Recommendations customized to your self-assessment
Detailed feedback
Ranks the needed implementation actions by the resources required
Customized for schools and businesses/organizations

15. Emergency Response Planning Tool
Makes it simple for you to create a customized Emergency Response Plan for your organization
Uses easy-to-understand language
Provides easy access to additional guidance
Presents best practice guidance to choose from
Allows addition of your own topics and guidance
Easy to update

16. Peer Comparison Report
Helps members compare their score to other members:
Company Name Here
Nationwide
In Their State
By Employee Size
By Industry/Sector

17. Resource Center
The Resource Center provides information, sample forms and tools to help you get better prepared for emergencies of all kinds!

18. Show Your Commitment to Preparedness
Show your customers and community that you care about being prepared:
Download the Member Seal and post it on your website or in areas visited by customers or students
Choose to be listed in the Current Member Listing on readyrating.org

19. National Founding Sponsor
Program Sponsors
We would like to thank our:
National Founding Sponsor
National Sponsor

20. Thank you 20