Friday, June 19, 2020

Steve Slepcevic Says 40% of Businesses Could Fold and Be Liable for Loss of Lives Without Tornado Disaster Teams in


Dallas, TX— 26/11/2019 — Though federal labor laws generally require all employers to have an emergency action plan that organizes activity during workplace emergencies, one disaster management company says too often, most employers don’t even have any plan whatsoever, and for the ones that do, at best, their plans are meager, outdated, and/or ineffective. Exemplifying this point, often times large residential buildings have numerous tenants who errantly believe they are safe before and after a storm due to the building owner’s perceived aptitude for maintaining adequate safety guidelines. Unfortunately, all too often this is not the case. Culpable large commercial asset owners in Tornado Alley — namely South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Northern Texas, and Eastern Colorado generally have more on their shoulders than managing bottom lines. Due to a large number of natural disasters their building assets incur, such asset managers also have to try to manage blame in an effort to deal with the devastating financial burden natural disasters can cause to these properties.
In addition to the financial consequences a building owner or manager must face after a natural disaster occurs for which they were caught off guard, such parties are also often left to deal with the resulting damage to their reputation when injuries to employees, residents, or customers of their building occur while on-site due to the building’s failure to adequately prepare. With an inability to bargain with an average of 1,253 tornadoes that occur annually in the US, large-scale companies with everything to lose should employ professional consultants who can fully assist with planning prior to any major disaster A stand-out in an industry of what is typically composed of oversimplified disaster planners, after over thirty (30) years of experience, Strategic Response Partners (SRP) continues to raise the bar. They have all the technological bells and whistles to mitigate the resulting damage from the worst storm while helping to keep those affected calm. Call it the real-time “boots on the ground” approach to storm negotiation.
Steve Selleck Slepcevic, Managing Partner of SRP 24 states, “Just recently a tornado blew the roof of a shopping center in Mississippi. People were walking around exposed wires and under what remained of the roof which was about to collapse on a large group of people attempting to salvage what they could and empty their store. If only a team had been in place to educate beforehand and coordinate during and after a storm, the potential for havoc would have been significantly minimized. Even though there’s little chance you’ll be able to eliminate all damage resulting from being hit by a tornado, there certainly are measures you can implement today to minimize damage to your property, reduce disruption to your business, and help save the lives of your employees and patrons.”
SRP 24 is a comprehensive disaster management company covering everything a business might need when dealing with a natural disaster. From writing the most compressive disaster management plans in the world, to responding ahead of time to prepare clients the day before and the day of an impending natural disaster, SRP is not only at the forefront of its industry, but is developing and integrating cutting edge technology to ensure it is an invaluable and unique resource for all of its clientele. Responding immediately to save lives and property, SRP keeps their clients’ businesses operating and recovering quicker with a new unmatched industry standard.
HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN
For each client, SRP first creates and puts a customized technology-based disaster prevention plan into play. This plan generally starts with integrating the use of a highly-sensitive weather radar that can secure all applicable geo points on a predictive early warning severe weather tracking platform. The ability to notify clients that they’re in the path of a severe weather outbreak coupled with SRP’s ability to respond immediately to their clients’ threatened site(s) is essential.
“Our plans work because we cover everything from planning for a storm to responding during it with the best response time possible. We work with major businesses to develop comprehensive preparation plans for all types of emergencies. Then, we can be confident because we’ve already created comprehensive and customized disaster plans and educated our clients where their potential fail points exist. Monitoring property locations and linking arms with our Critical Response Team to prepare people and secure buildings before any disaster hits are key,” Slepcevic adds.
HAVE AN INTERNAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT TEAM
All to often, during a severe weather event, local fire departments are simply unable to respond to most calls for help, and even if they could, it may be too late. It is critical to the recovery efforts that an internal disaster management team mobilizes in the storm zone ahead of these supercell tornadoes and hurricane zones days before an event actually strikes. Then when appropriate, SRP’s highly-trained Critical Response Team can move in-and-around storms while its Disaster Management Team works alongside the internal team to inspect properties for hazards such as structural collapse, electrical, gas leaks, exposure to hazardous materials, and assist in immediate mitigation efforts to limit or avoid the potential for loss of life and further property damage.
After a storm, Strategic Response Partners uses specialty drones equipped with thermal cameras, speakers, and lights to help locate people who have been displaced and/or trapped by the storm, and then provide critical rescue services, as needed. SRP’s convoy generally also includes a team of highly-trained firefighters and paramedics as well as life and safety support for some of America’s top meteorologists.
SRP First Responders include:
Urban Search and Rescue
Firefighters and Paramedics
Hazmat Environmental Consultants
Structural and Roofing Engineers
Electricians and Disaster Response Coordinator
Tornado Critical Response Chase Team
Taking their reputations into their own hands, building owners all too often look past the need to have pros who know how to secure their buildings and forensically document the damage, generally because they don’t recognize the need for such services or they are just trying to save a buck. Details like controlled access and waivers from the tenants and employees who enter the premises can help to contain serious liability.
GET BACK ON TRACK QUICKLY
With recovery plans specifically tailored to their clients’ businesses, SRP focuses on facets such as life, safety, and all other liabilities. Leaving nothing to chance, SRP engages its cutting edge drone team to complete a full survey and property conditions report before and after a storm, all in an effort to mitigate any loss, help ensure quick insurance settlements, and to reopen its clients’ businesses ASAP. Loss consultants are also available to help clients manage and navigate disaster insurance claims.
For more information about Strategic Response Partners contact them at (888) 582–5848 or response@srp24.com.
About Strategic Response Partners
Strategic Response Partners has been in the disaster planning to response and recovery industry for the past 30 years. The company’s Managing Partner, Steve Selleck Slepcevic is also a founding member and board advisor for the American Policyholders Association a consumer watchdog group that fights against Insurance fraud — American Policyholders Association at https://apassociation.org/.
Contact: Steve Selleck Slepcevic Managing Partner, Strategic Response Partners
response@srp24.com
(888) 582–5848
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IS YOUR BUSINESS READY TO SAFELY REOPEN?


Strategic Response Partners (SRP) stands ready to assist clients nationally to prepare to safely reopen and stay open from Compliance Planning, Decontamination, Sanitization, and Environmental Remediation Protocols following the COVID-19 Federal, State and Local guidelines.
With decades of experience in routine biological and environmental remediation, SRP is well-equipped to handle critical situations like this. Our team analyzes and establishes procedures from the guests’ registrations, employee and tenant arrival procedures, pass through touch points, ThermoGate clearance barriers, capacity compliance, workstation partitions, disinfecting extended kill rates, sanitization protocols, ventilation retrofits to prevent cross-contamination, hazmat vendor selection and monitoring of remediation protocols.
Through the use of the latest advanced disinfectant equipment, as well as CDC / EPA approved cleaning solutions, SRP along with its Certified Environmental Infection Control Experts can effectively oversee and monitor the cleaning and sanitization of your property, as well as provide you with a safe-to-reoccupy clearance certificate which can bring your facility to a hospital-grade clean room condition.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A BUILDING OPERATOR
To help contain the spread COVID-19 and to safely and promptly re-open businesses, owners and operators of commercial buildings have the responsibility to take appropriate sanitization measures, if your building has been contaminated. The SRP COVID-19 Response Team has developed three levels of service.
LEVEL ONE: PRECAUTIONARY
Level one protection is for businesses with no known contamination seeking to maintain safe and sanitary environments for customers and employees. Daily or twice-daily disinfection is conducted by SRP’s team of trained and experienced biohazard cleanup technicians, using EPA-registered chlorine or peroxide-based cleaners and proper disposal of waste. Treatments can be performed during off-hours to avoid business interruption.
LEVEL TWO: POSSIBLE EXPOSURE
Businesses or public spaces with suspected exposure (an infected person inside the building) require detailed 10-foot down disinfection and deep-clean decontamination performed by SRP’s team of EHS (environment, health and safety)-certified biohazard cleanup technicians specially qualified for respiratory cleanup.
LEVEL THREE: CONFIRMED EXPOSURE
Businesses or public spaces with confirmed exposure to COVID-19 require customized protocols specific to the site to ensure thorough and proper decontamination. SRP will work closely with our client team to develop a custom plan that protects the health of their employees, customers and communities and mitigates impact to the operations of the enterprise.
All levels employ the following methods and technologies as appropriate:
  • Ultraviolet (UV) light disinfection
  • Decontamination team health monitoring
  • Proper disposal of waste marked as biohazard
  • Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) mist fogger
  • EPA-registered chlorine or peroxide-based cleaners
  • Complete spray down / wipe down of all touch-prone surfaces
  • Monitoring of personal protection equipment (PPE), including respiratory protection
CLEANING AGENTS
SRP’s crews use EPA-registered chlorine or peroxide-based cleaners known to be highly effective against the COVID-19 virus. These products are designed for disinfection of hard, nonporous surfaces and do not leave corrosive residues. They are fragrance and dye-free.
ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT DISINFECTION
SRP is fully equipped to offer state-of-the-art surface disinfection using UV Mobile Room Sanitizers as an added-value alternative to achieve surface sanitation and sterilization. The UV Room Sanitizer unit is specifically designed for the disinfection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi (mold) on exposed surfaces. The application of UV-C energy to deactivate microorganisms is known as Germicidal Irradiation or UVGI. Artificial UV-C energy is produced in germicidal ultraviolet lamps that produce UV radiation by ionizing low-pressure mercury vapor. These lamps are similar to typical fluorescent household lighting fixtures but do not have the phosphorescent coating which imparts the soft white light. Ionized mercury emits a predominantly discreet wavelength of 254nm in the UV-C band, which is an ideal wavelength for destroying the DNA of single-celled organisms.
VAPORIZED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE MIST FOGGERS
SRP’s certified technicians use hydrogen peroxide mist foggers to disperse sanitizing chemicals and disinfect surfaces. Mist foggers use electrostatic spraying to ensure large areas and hard-to-reach corners are coated with disinfectant. This method is ideal for hidden surfaces and high-touch point areas such as railings, door handles, water fountains, lockers and other furniture and fixtures found in high-traffic common areas.
BIOHAZARD WASTE DISPOSAL
SRP’s certified technicians are trained in the appropriate disposal of biohazard waste. Waste is handled by certified personnel and sent to state-approved facilities to be thermally destroyed in accordance with local and state regulations.
One call to 888–582–5848 will put you in touch with an expert from SRP who works with a Certified Industrial Hygienist and coordinates closely with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure that all CDC and Department of Public Health guidelines are followed.
For more information contact Steve Slepcevic: response@srp24.com
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Preparing for an Active Hurricane Season Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak.
Hurricane predictions show an above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean. An April report from Colorado State University said, “Seasonal Hurricane forecast calls for an above-average season: 16 named storms, 8 hurricanes & 4 major (Cat 3+) hurricanes. As is the case with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season for them. They should prepare the same for every season, regardless of how much activity is predicted.” Even though June 1st is the start of the official hurricane season, we have already seen one named storm over the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Arthur. With this being the case, the possibility of the United States facing dual disasters is very present.
Strategic Response Partners has already begun working through some of the questions that a particularly devastating storm could present: How do shelters work when social distancing is still recommended? How do you keep a shelter clean and disinfected continually? If shelters open ahead of a hurricane, will vulnerable people leave their homes?
SRP has been on the frontlines of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, assisting clients to prepare to safely reopen and stay open from Compliance Planning, Decontamination, Sanitization and Environmental Remediation Protocols following the COVID-19 Federal, State and Local guidelines.
  • Prepare your building management, employees, tenants and guests on how to be organized and resilient in the face of disaster.
  • Review your evacuation procedures and implement our cutting edge app to run drills and help ensure success every time.
  • Assist with the management of local, state and federal emergency responses that will directly impact your ability to recover.
  • Work with and use mass notification systems to create concise messaging to all necessary parties.
  • Perform a 3D pre/post storm property condition report with precise aerial exterior and interior models.
  • Adopt and use early warning severe weather alerts that are site-specific for your property(ies).
  • Use new and emerging technologies to better prepare your family, business, and communities.
  • Pre-screen all your vendor’s response capabilities — including temporary power, security, nurse stations, restoration companies, risk managers, consultants, engineers, certified industrial hygienists, adjusters, and lawyers to help minimize your loss and maximize your success.
  • Prepare and execute an in-depth Active Shooter | Fire | Severe Weather | Cyber Security Training to educate members of your organization on how to recognize signs of potential violent behavior, crisis communication, mass notification, evacuation, tracking surveillance, and lockdown systems to respond quickly and effectively.
  • Set up a command post, obtain signed waivers, and assign a public information officer to share messaging with local media properly and effectively.
  • Put a detailed plan in place to help maximize recovery through insurance/risk/impact/crisis management — All while working to limit your liability exposure, reduce business interruption and quickly recover from any major disaster.
For more information on how to properly plan for Hurricane Season, contact Steve Slepcevic with Strategic Response Partners: response@srp24.com or call (888) 582–5848.

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