Just over halfway through the year, most Americans have already been impacted by severe weather events. The Retail Learning Institute's Store Safety: Severe Weather course can help you and your associates effectively plan for a severe weather-related emergency.
Course description: Natural disasters can strike at any time, resulting in costly damage and loss of life. Therefore, food retailers should consider managing and implementing and managing emergency plans before, during and after severe weather.
By providing insight into a variety of severe weather events and their corresponding weather alerts, this course provides the foundational knowledge necessary for preparing an effective response to severe weather. With information about floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes, this course addresses potentially dangerous weather patterns that impact retailers throughout the country.
A step-by-step series of strategies is provided for each type of weather, accounting for the different preparations that are required for different kinds of storms. These clearly identified steps can help stores build their own severe weather response strategies. These strategies begin with preventive action to take before storms are reported, include information about how to protect customers during a weather event, and provide explanations for what a store should do after a storm strikes.
Next, the course identifies different alerts that are issued for each type of storm. These descriptions can help retailers decide which actions to take and when, allowing for a more efficient response. The course also identifies a variety of resources that are available for retailers to learn more about the weather in their area and stay informed about changes.
From moving quickly out of a flood’s path to researching nearby tornado shelters, learning about storm safety at RLI can help retailers keep their customers and their associates safe.