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. 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 1794
total members
 Members are taking action!
1357 Businesses/
 75% of members have updated their Organizations
plans due to Ready Rating
437 Schools
 70% of Ready Rating members have
educated their employees about
preparedness at work
 Members have increased their scores
– some by as much as 42%

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

20. Thank you