ABSTRACT
Businesses, industries, and institutions fare with various degrees of success during emergency or disaster conditions. Some organizations are well-prepared to safeguard the lives of their employees, protect their physical facilities, and even arrange to continue production during a crisis. Other organizations may not be as prepared, but are able to resume functioning due to their unique product or service, or continue functioning due to their escaping the worst consequences of a disastrous situation. However, the majority of American businesses, industries and institutions suffer catastrophic losses every time a disaster strikes their facilities. These different results are not due to differences in wealth, physical size, or number of employees, but rather to different degrees of emergency and disaster planning and preparation.
