Industry cannot survive by instinct and determina- 

 tion alone. The enormous devastation which could 

 be created by nuclear holocaust demands intelligent 

 action by all industries to meet the threat to their exist- 

 ence. The program of civil defense for industry was 

 designed to provide guidance and coordination for 

 the national industrial preparedness effort. 



Although a system of fallout shelters is the founda- 

 tion upon which civil defense measures are based, 

 readying fallout shelters is by no means the only pre- 

 paredness action to be taken. It is clesir that fallout 

 shelters must be created and made ready before other 

 civil defense actions will have much meaning. 



Every company should develop civil defense plans 

 in close cooperation with the local civil defense direc- 

 tor. It is his job to coordinate emergency planning 

 among departments of local government, to guide and 

 help industry in preparing for civil defense, and to 

 arrange for training of civil defense coordinators and 

 committee members at OCD schools. 



It is clear that there can be no one plan which will 

 meet the requirements of all companies and plants. 

 However, with information gathered from Hiroshima 

 and Nagasaki, from the A-bomb and H-bomb tests, 

 and from the thinking of many industrial executives 

 who have already made certain disaster prepyarations 

 within their companies and plants, there have evolved 

 elements of an industrial civil defense program which 

 can be tailored to fit each company and plant situation. 



Ideally, to plan and administer a company civil 

 defense program, management should designate cor- 

 porate and plant civil defense coordinators, establish 

 a civil defense advisory committee composed of repre- 

 sentatives of various departments of the company, 

 issue appropriate policy statements and adminis- 

 trative directives to establish the company civQ defense 

 program, and publish the company civil defense plan 

 in a manual. 



Industrial leaders — planning for civil defense emer- 

 gencies — in addition to providing shelters for em- 

 ployees and the public, should : plan for the movement 



of employees to shelter; train employees in shelter 

 management; arrange for receipt and dissemination 

 of warning; establish a control center and communi- 

 cations system: develop emergency shutdown pro- 

 cedures; organize and train the plant protective services 

 and employees for self-help including radiological 

 monitoring; enroll the industrial protective services 

 and other skilled units into appropriate departments 

 of local government as auxiliaries; protect vital records 

 and documents; plan for executive succession and con- 

 tinuity of management — this may require amendment 

 of corporate by-laws and regulations; pre|>are for 

 emergency repair and restoration of facilities; join 

 with other plants in the neighborhood to set up an 

 industrial mutual aid association; establish a security 

 system for protection against espionage and sabotage; 

 inform and educate employees in methods of personal 

 and home survival; and provide leadership, support 

 and assistance to government in preparing for com- 

 munity survival. 



Industries must take the initiative and carry the load 

 in providing for their survival. Government can, and 

 will, give technical and other assistance, and will co- 

 operate in every way possible; but industn' itself, in 

 cooj>eration with government, must make and put into 

 effect its own civil defense plans. 



In a nuclear emergency, the facilities of local govern- 

 ments will be taxed beyond capacity. The ability- of 

 industrial plants to survive will be directly dependent 

 upon the advance training and preparations which they 

 have devoted to survival techniques. 



Under Executive Order No. 10998 of February 16, 

 1962, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsi- 

 ble for providing civil defense information and assist- 

 ance to the companies throughout the Nation repre- 

 sentative of the food industn". 



Preparing for civil defense in industry — saving 

 lives of employees and protecting corporate property — 

 is no luxury; it is good insurance. All industries are 

 urged to participate, for their own welfare and for the 

 sake of the Nation. 



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