The resource center is a collection of articles and links to informative Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery sites.

Please feel free to revisit this page as we continue to add articles and links that we think are of value and interest to our partners.

Improving Business Continuity Testing and Exercising - Continuity Central asked various business continuity experts why it seems that many organizations neglect the area of testing and exercising and what individual organizations can do to improve. Each expert was asked the same three questions and the various comments received in response are summarized...

Cultural Conditioning - The Training Dilemma - James Royds highlights the benefits that exercising brings to the whole business continuity lifecycle.

Washington State Emergency Management site with great links to personal and business preparedness information in six languages. Indicate your language preference and then link to your area of interest. http://www.washington.edu/emergency/index.php

Puget Sound Earthquake information:
http://www.crew.org/index.html   

King County's Preparedness site:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/safety/prepare.aspx

Homeland Security site with good information for personal and business preparedness: http://www.ready.gov

Seattle Red Cross site with links to family and business preparedness as well as training resources:
http://www.seattleredcross.org

University of Washington Emergency Management site has good articles and lots of preparedness links:
http://www.washington.edu/emergency/index.php

Institute For Business and Home Safety has comprehensive recovery checklists that many businesses have found helpful:
http://www.disastersafety.org/text.asp?id=commlines

City of Seattle Office of Emergency Preparedness - Good personal preparedness information including section for those with disabilities:
http://www.seattle.gov/emergency/citygov/reconstruction.htm

Washington State Association of Contingency Planners - Meets every other month in the Puget Sound area, BC and DR presentations:
http://www.acp-wa-state.org/ 

NOAA National Weather Service is the most comprehensive weather resource available without a subscription. Key in your zip code for a detailed 7 day forecast or click on the maps and links at the bottom of the page for more national and local information:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=47.660762874112834&lon=-122.19955444335937&site=sew&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en