Implementation
Partner with Valley Vision to train businesses to use the Business Resiliency Initiative (BRI) toolkit, which prepares businesses for weather-related risks to daily operations. Aspects of the BRI toolkit include:
preparation of a hazard vulnerability assessment, which identifies the greatest risks and hazards facing individual businesses;
review of existing resiliency;
development of a business continuity plan;
testing of business continuity plans through drills and exercises; and
engagement in community outreach.
Benefits: Increased participation in the BRI and use of the toolkit would result in increased resiliency on a business-by-business basis during power outages induced by extreme heat events. Businesses would be responsible for conducting self-evaluations to identify assets at risk or vulnerable to weather-related disturbances that include extreme heat events but also other extreme events, such as storms, floods, and fires.
Co-benefit
This measure will have co-benefits related to changes in precipitation, wildfire, and flood risk.
Timeframe: Near term
