Protecting Your Facility and Equipment - IBHS Resources

Alternative Heating Sources Guide
Commercial Roofs Best Practices Guide - The roof is the most vulnerable part of every building. Weather events seem to be getting more extreme every year, and if your roof is compromised during a severe weather event, it could sustain costly damage requiring repairs or even replacement. This guide provides best practices for commercial buildings to resist damage to roofs from thunderstorms, winds at the edges of tornadoes, hail events, hurricanes and other high-wind events. Click here to learn more.
Continuity Plans - One year ago, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) created OFB-EZ™, a free business continuity planning toolkit to help small businesses translate professional continuity concepts into an easy-to-use guide for their business. Click here to learn more about OFB-EZ™ and the benefits of continuity planning.
Commercial Habitational Property Roof Covers. The Institute for Business and Home Safety provides a brief overview of risk related criteria that you should consider when choosing roof cover for commercial habitational properties.
NEW - Now is the time to protect your commercial building against pipe freezing! Click here for a new infographic that explains what causes frozen pipes and the necessary steps to prevent frozen pipes from causing property damage when the temperature drops.
Freezing and Bursting Pipes Guide
Freezing Weather Maintenance Checklist

Frozen Pipe Facts
Know Your Winter Weather Terms
Resources
Snow Roof Risks
Winter Weather Flood Risks
Knowing Your Risks - the Starting Point for Business Protection and Business Continuity Planning
Telecommuting can be a key business continuity tool enables businesses to maintain operations even if the workplace itself is shut down. Click here for some ideas about how business owners can include telecommuting in their business continuity plans, and what other considerations should be made before implementing this type of strategy.
Information is critical during catastrophic events and emergencies. Does your business have a crisis communication program? Click here to learn more.
The Institute for Business and Home Safety has developed the FORTIFIED suite of commercial building standards to equip business owners with a blueprint for building stronger and more resilient facilities. Click here to learn more.
Businesses need to be aware of how El Nino can threaten their region. The Institute for Business and Home Safety offers some steps to protect employees, facilities and operations from loss. Click here to learn more.
What five plans should a business have to ensure successful disaster recovery? Find the answer in the latest publication from the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety.