Survival Kit Product And Emergency

Household Emergency Plans and Survival Kits

Emergency services, local government and support services need to work with seniors and people with disabilities in developing community and personal emergency plans. Resources need to be available in multiple formats for people with sensory impairments, low literacy and cognitive processing difficulties, such as Easy English, community languages, audio and video with Auslan interpreters also on screen.

A common household emergency survival kit needs to be provided to the community, with space for local hazard adaptation and impairment considerations. There are currently variations on different websites with different emphases on what should be in the plans and kits. There is also variation in terminology and need for survival and relocation kits. The community needs a consistent survival kit with adaptations for local hazards and prompts for items to consider due to impairment. Red Cross have been developing household Rediplans and survival kit for specifically for seniors and people with disabilities.

They have researched nationally and internationally, and DEMA participants were invited to provide input to the draft. Survival kit to include people’s key medical information, copies of scripts, identification, personal effects as well as survival tools. Many people on low incomes have limited resources to purchase items for survival kits, so consider supplying wind up torch with radio transmitter and mobile phone charger, commercially available approximately $10. Many people in social and public housing do not have facilities to store food, such as boarding houses, hostels. Consider yearly campaign for people to update their household emergency survival kit to ensure copies of scripts, medical information, food and water supplies are updated.

Survival Kit Product

Guardian Deluxe Two Person Survival Kit, This survival kit was designed using advice from experts in the emergency preparedness industry. It follows guidelines given by government agencies and non-profit preparedness organizations. This 2-person deluxe emergency kit has a retail value of $140.