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Emergency Preparedness Tips for People with Developmental or Cognitive Disabilities
Provides information about the importance of practicing evacuation from places where you spend time (such as work, home, school, a volunteer assignment, etc.) until you feel comfortable and confident that you will know what to do during and after an emergency. This link opens a PDF document.
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.
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.
Effective Emergency Preparedness Planning: Addressing the Needs of Employees with Disabilities
Fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) regarding emergency preparedness planning for people with disabilities.
Emergency Planning for Employees
Information from Ready.gov on how to include employees with disabilities in emergency planning.
Employers' Guide to Including Employees with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans
Guide from the Job Accommodation Network helps employers develop emergency evacuation plans that include employees with disabilities.
Every Business Should Have a Plan
Brochure from Ready.gov regarding emergency preparedness in the workplace. This link opens a PDF document.
Exiting a High Rise Building During an Emergency
Information from Ready.gov on how to evacuate a high rise building during an emergency.
Planning for an Emergency: School & Workplace
Information from Ready.gov regarding how to develop a plan in case of an emergency or natural disaster in the school or workplace.
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.
Shelter in Place
Information from Ready.gov on what to do during an emergency or natural disaster if it is safer to stay where you are, rather than evacuate.
Sign Language for Emergency Situations
American Sign Language (ASL) manual for use during emergency situations. This link opens a PDF document.
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