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The Sustainability Leader's Guide to Extreme Weather Readiness

As a sustainability leader, you are in a unique position to protect workers from extreme weather, because your work already reaches into your company's supply chain and plans for physical risk. Making worker protection part of that work can strengthen your ratings and disclosures and help keep your people safe and your business running when severe weather hits.

Organized by areas that sustainability leaders are responsible for, this guide offers actions you can take now and readiness strategies to build on over time. For deeper support, tools, and a peer community, explore Extreme Weather + Work membership.

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Getting Started

Learn what extreme weather is costing employers, why workforce exposure is becoming a disclosure question, and how adaptation pays off.

The Business Case: Why Extreme Weather Readiness Matters for Sustainability

Sustainability’s role is to show organizations why investing in resilience is good business. Here’s why you should start prioritizing workers in your strategy.

Guidance by HR Focus Area

Find recommendations specific to your responsibilities. Each section includes actions you can start today, strategies to build on, and leading-edge approaches for organizations ready to go further.

Resilience and Adaptation Planning

Most resilience plans protect systems and facilities. Here's how to make sure they also protect the people running them.

Procurement and Supply Chain

The workers most exposed to extreme weather are often the ones you don’t directly employ. Here's how to use codes, contracts, and sourcing decisions to support them and extend workforce resilience across your operations.

Reporting and Disclosure

Does your company's climate risk reporting account for the people doing the work? Here's how to add workforce climate resilience to your sustainability assessments, ratings, and reports.

Want help putting this into practice? Extreme Weather + Work members get priority access to Workforce Resilience Labs, peer networks, and implementation support.

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Employers in Action

See how companies are putting extreme weather readiness strategies into practice.

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More Guidance

Workforce readiness requires coordination across teams. Explore guides designed for more functions at your organization, and learn how Extreme Weather + Work can help you prepare.

The HR Leader's Guide to Extreme Weather Readiness

Readiness strategies for HR focus areas, including benefits design, leave policies, people analytics, and more.

The OHS Leader's Guide to Extreme Weather Readiness

Readiness strategies for OHS focus areas, including prevention, training, emergency response, and more.

Extreme Weather + Work

Learn how your organization can support workers before, during, and after extreme weather.

About Extreme Weather + Work

Extreme Weather + Work is an initiative of the Health Action Alliance. We bring together leaders who rarely sit in the same room and connect them with peers across industries, giving them the research and tools they need to support their people before, during, and after extreme weather. Our work is advised by the National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health, a board of experts spanning business, health, climate, and policy.

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