Contingency
Planning & Consulting

Prepare for the Unexpected with the Right Contingency Plan

Today’s turbulent labor market demands a comprehensive contingency plan. To best protect your business and customers, a strategic and proven partner is key - Strom Engineering is that partner.

Strom’s Consulting Group will empower your business with strategic planning and proven staffing solutions, expertly deployed to resolve workforce uncertainties. For over 60 years, Strom has helped hundreds of companies achieve fair and equitable contracts with their employees - all while maintaining a safe and productive work environment.

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Benefits of Using Strom for Contingency Planning

Experience and communication are key in developing an effective, executable contingency plan. Strom brings both to the table, giving you assurance that your business will succeed.

Planning for pandemics, natural disasters, labor disputes, and other potential emergencies is Strom Consulting’s specialty. Our contingency planning services offer a variety of benefits to your company:

Minimized risk of disruption

Robust planning resources for present & future needs

Protection of assets, profitability, and customers

Improved bargaining position

Continuous labor solutions and resources

Business Continuity Planning & Playbooks

Strom is the leading provider of contingent labor planning, having developed and executed hundreds of plans over several decades. In addition to comprehensive, written Contingency Plan Playbooks, Strom’s consulting group offers related training to prepare your organization and employees for the unique circumstances presented by a potential labor disruption.

Strom’s Contingency Planning Playbooks are custom-tailored to your business to serve as a valuable guide through potentially uncertain times, while keeping your plans and strategies documented for future reference.

Strom can develop a singular Playbook for your organization, or multiple Playbooks with varying levels of detail, specific to individual departments or teams.

Documentation Services

Accurate documentation of every process and procedure is essential for any company. Detailed job descriptions and documentation of all aspects of operations ensure that potential tribal knowledge, nuances, and intricacies are common knowledge to company management.

Strom’s documentation services open opportunities for process improvement and support organization development through:

Increasing communication via a Strom consultant actively facilitating attention to potential improvements and areas of concern.
Employees input and ideas relating to quality, safety, efficiency, etc.
Identification of gaps between “what is” and “should be.”
Identification of current deviations from “standard” processes.

Our Documentation Services may include:

Job safety analysis
Physical demand documentation
Review of existing documentation
Documentation of job steps
Updating existing documentation
Capture of tribal knowledge
Process analysis
Review and revision of training material
Drawing packages in physical and/or digital mediums

NLRA T.I.P.S. Training & Picket Line Safety Training

Strom offers customized training for your salaried staff, providing knowledge and guidance on how to lawfully and effectively communicate with union members to deliver a message consistent with company policy, strategy, and culture. Strom Consulting’s training sessions can help reduce valid unfair labor practice charges and help to build positive relationships between salaried and hourly personnel while staying within NLRA guidelines and respecting protected activity.

Managing Start-Ups, Shutdowns, & Relocations

Strom provides temporary staffing support services to meet your startup, shutdown, or relocation needs. Strom can provide personnel to facilitate:

Responding to workforce attrition after closure announcements
Equipment/machinery relocation
Equipment/machinery connections, setup, and testing
Facilities preparation/setup and facilities maintenance, mock and initial production runs
Production and maintenance personnel, including supplemental or full workforce

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Cross-Docking and Logistics Solutions

The ability to ship product and receive materials and supplies is a critical component of business across nearly all industries. Strong partnerships with your existing carriers and suppliers are important, and clear, early communication prior to a potential labor dispute is an effective way to determine what level of support they will commit to providing in the event there is a picket line in their path. When continued support is uncertain, Strom offers solutions to minimize risk of shipping/receiving issues and delays.

A Strom Cross-Dock is the turnkey solution to your suppliers’ and/or carriers’ refusal to cross a picket. With proper advance planning, we can set up the appropriate property, equipment, and resources needed to get material into your facility and product to your customers.

Strom’s solutions are scalable. When a dedicated Cross-Dock is more than necessary, we can partner with, or help you identify, local 3PLs that will support you during a labor dispute.

Security Solutions

Although Strom does not directly provide security services, we have strategic partnerships in place with industry-leading Strike Security Specialists. From their in-depth site surveys to picket line incident documentation, Strom’s security experts focus on lawfully protecting your assets and your NLRA-granted rights.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Strom Engineering’s knowledge and foresight into our potential labor dispute gave the company an opportunity to concentrate on running the business throughout the negotiating process. It allowed our associates to have a level of confidence that we could operate the plant regardless of the outcome of the labor dispute.

Mark L.

Printing Company

Choosing to work with Strom was the hardest decision that I have ever made in business. It has also proved to be my best decision.

Mark W.

Global Defense, Security, & Aerospace Company

Strom not only provided the promised services, they over-delivered. Pricing was competitive with other firms considered in the top tier. Strom made me look good.

Wayne B.

Heavy Equipment Manufacturer

Contingency Planning & Consulting