You have nothing to fear from this article.

You think you have done a good job with disaster recovery, security, and risk management.  Your employees all fulfill their interactive online training classes on time.  You have documented plans for all contingencies.  Plans are on the company web site.   There are hard copies of key information for everyone.  The detailed plans are in folders on your company shared file server with access to sensitive information properly controlled.  I am not going to suggest more of the same.

I am going to suggest that you create a corporate culture that encourages your employees to actively learn about and think about risk management through:

• Bonuses
• Employee incentive plans
• Benefits
• Corporate discounts
• Training
• Team building
• Marketing

If you get your employees think about extreme cases they will do the work for themselves.  Examples of extreme cases are:

1. Shelter in place.
2. Evacuation from home, work, the city, the state.
3. Gunman in a building.
4. Bomb in a building.

Employees will learn more if they get to make choices, and can discuss and compare their choices among themselves.  Get them in on the planning of your effort.

Here are a few suggestions just to get you started:

1. If you are still doing the Thanksgiving turkey, let employees choose between:
   1.  A turkey
   2.  An equivalent amount of
      1. Bottled water
      2. Emergency food for their home – people or pets.
2. Provide choices for spot bonuses like:
   1. A biometric (thumb print) USB stick
   2. Some really cool training for travelling in dangerous places
   3. An emergency ladder for getting out of a building from a window
   4.  Emergency masks that protect against smoke inhalation, biohazards etc.
   5. A bullet-proof backpack go bag with essentials
   6. Potassium iodide.
3. If you have a health plan that provides incentives for physical activity, add some cool stuff like:
   1. Rock wall climbing
   2. Rappelling
   3. Practical self defense
   4. Water rescue and survival
4. In employee orientation, give employees nice customized and laminated emergency route maps from home and work with shelters marked.
5. Make sure your health benefits include a 30-day supply of emergency prescription medications where each medication can be used and refilled before it expires.
6. Make sure your health benefits provide an electronic health record that will easily download to the spiffy biometric USB stick.
7. Negotiate corporate discounts for
   1. Services that supply and refresh emergency food, water, essentials, seeds etc.
   2. Training for employee and family
      1.   Wilderness survival
      2.   Riding horses
      3.   Driving commercial trucks, motorcycles
   3. Camping supplies (compact, essential)
   4. Panic rooms and bunkers
   5. Defensive driving
   6. Gun safety training
   7. Solar and crank powered gadgets: OLPC laptops, short wave radios, cell phone chargers, cell phone hot spots, generators
8. There are lots of training opportunities.  Some could involve employees and their families:
   1. The police generally offer training in
      1.    Self-defense
      2.    Travelling safely
      3.    Being streetwise in a city
      4.    What you need to know before going to college.
      5.    Sponsor a “Take Your Kids To Work Days” and get enough people together to get the police to offer a class at your company.  Let them bring their kids too.  Feed them all pizza and salad.
   2. Language training
   3. Corporate team building around survival skills, hostage situations, recognizing threats:  abandoned packages, glassy eyed people with very large chests
   4. Surveillance recognition and evasion
   5.  Intersperse fire drills with more novel drills.   Practice silent alerts as well as the usual loud fire alerts.
9. Include any of the above in marketing swag and branded in your company store.

I am not providing links to any of the suggestions.  Researching possibilities is part of getting you to think and buy in.  Suggestions in comments are welcome.  Vendors are welcome to send a short intro and a link to items or services they offer.  Please put “Vendor” in the subject line with a brief description of product  or service (such as Subject:  Vendor – Corporate Outdoor Teambuilding) and a clean link.  All comments are reviewed before posting.