EWN's home page is at www.ewn.com.au

This site is to be used to support EWN activities in the financial planning arena. For the moment you can download the following documents relating to this initiative:

1. System Brief: www.plan.com.au/EWN_System_Brief.pdf
2. Building business relationships: www.plan.com.au/Take_the_Lead.pdf
3. New Risks & New Opportunities: www.plan.com.au/New_Risks_New_Opportunities.pdf
4. Sample Certificate: www.plan.com.au/Sample_Certificate.pdf
5. Climate Ready Partner Logo: www.plan.com.au/climate_ready_logo_sml.jpg
6. Agency Agreement: www.plan.com.au/Agency_Agreement.pdf
7. Business Registration Form (Print version): www.plan.com.au/Business_Registration.pdf
8. Note to Advisors: www.plan.com.au/Note_to_Advisers.pdf

EWN's Take the Lead provides financial planners an unprecedented opportunity to instantly build relationships with almost every business in their community. Planners prospect bases will explode while your competitors stand back slack jawed as you  speak with their customers.

Take the Lead is something that every responsible business in the community will want to talk to you about. You will be able to help protect businesses and save them money. The Early Warning Network (EWN) exists to protect life and property and ‘Take the Lead’ is a national EWN initiative to provide that protection to businesses. EWN is Australia’s only operational national early warning system and the world’s most sophisticated warning system for severe weather. Operating since 2007 EWN has proven itself beyond all expectations in its effort to protect life and property. EWN is providing the community and business resilience against severe natural hazards.

As a result of severe weather or related events, businesses in your area are at extreme risk with consequences ranging from death and injury through to property damage. This in turn exposes a business to substantial liability. EWN’s service helps protect businesses, staff, customers and property from these risks. In doing this it also helps treat and discharge a duty of care businesses may owe to employees, visitors and customers. State OH&S laws and AS/NZS 4360:2004 describe in detail a businesses duty of care in this area.

Businesses can register directly with EWN at a cost of thirty dollars per month or free of charge through EWN authorised partners. Registered businesses receive a ‘Business Resilience’ certificate and the right to display and advertise the ‘EWN REGISTERED’ logo. Employees and customers of participating business may also register to the service free of charge.

We’re in a different world - A world where to remain competitive businesses have to be on the lookout for new opportunities - proactively. They have to create an effective sales strategy dedicated to new business generation and prospecting. At the same time the financial climate and the weather have become equally as challenging. Take the Lead turns these challenges into opportunity and is something all businesses will want to talk to you about. By speaking with you they can become safer, contribute to community safety and save money.

EWN partners are licensed to offer the EWN service free to any business with between 1-15 employees. An EWN Partnership costs between $50-$100 per month.

Benefits to your business customers

• Saves money

• Makes a business safer and more resilient

• Helps to protect staff, customers, visitors and property

• Improves staff sense of well being and security

• Reduces businesses risk and liability

• Participation helps build community resilience

• Takes concrete action climate change adaption
  
  Participating businesses are issued a certificate of business Resilience and the right to use the Climate Ready ‘Partner’ Logo.