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Make a household emergency plan
A household emergency plan lets everyone in your household know what to do in an emergency and how to get ready. Having a plan helps make actual emergency situations less stressful.
Make a plan with your whānau to get through an emergency. Think about the things you need every day and work out what you would do if you didn't have them.
Make sure your home emergency plan also lines up with emergency plans for your work, school, and other places where you spend a lot of time.
Fill in the form then print it out, stick it on the fridge and make sure everyone knows the plan. Or save it as a PDF and email it to your whānau.
Before your start
Make sure you have considered all the needs of your household including:
- Disabled people
- Babies and young children
- Pets and other animals
Download a PDF template
Do you prefer to hand write your emergency plan? Download and print the PDF paper version of the Make a Plan template in English or Te Reo Māori.
Download this PDF template to make an emergency plan with your whānau.
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Download this PDF template in Te Reo Māori to make an emergency plan with your whānau.
Tailor your plan
Every household's plan will be different, because of where we live, who lives with us and who might need our help.
When you're making your household plan, remember to include everyone. Think about the requirements of disabled people, older people, babies, young children, pets and other animals.
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Get your community ready
Help your friends, family and community get prepared for emergencies.
Make a community emergency plan so your community can help each other in an emergency. Talking with other people in your community is one of the best ways to prepare for emergencies.
MAKE A COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PLANMake a work emergency plan
In an emergency, you can be stuck at work, without transport home. Make a personal workplace emergency plan so you know who to contact at work and have a plan to get home safely.
Have staff fill in a personal workplace emergency plan to plan for an emergency during work hours.
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Planning for emergencies makes good business sense. It helps keep you and your workers safe and minimises downtime.
Make a school emergency plan
Find out what your early childhood centre or school’s emergency plan is.
- Find out where their safe location is so you know where you can pick your children up from after the “all-clear” is given.
- Plan to collect your children by foot or bike, if possible. Routes to and from schools may be jammed. Telephone lines during an emergency may be overloaded.
- Make sure the contact details your early childhood centre or school has are up to date. Give them a list of three people who can pick the kids up if you can’t get there.
Make a marae emergency plan
Make a marae emergency plan to help your marae be as prepared as possible for a natural disaster or emergency.
The Marae Emergency Preparedness Plan helps marae be prepared for an emergency. It encourages whānau, hapū and iwi to think about the possible impacts of natural disasters.
(A family sits around the dinner table, passing food between them and chatting. The camera pans down the table to a girl at the end holding up a clipboard.)
Girl: Whakarongo! [Listen up!]
(The girl thumps down her clipboard and the family stop talking to listen. The family turn to look at her.)
Girl: Are we prepared for when a disaster strikes?
(The girl looks at her family and they look unsure.)
(Close up of the girl leaning over to her brother.)
Girl: If we were deep in the danger zone would you be ready?
(The brother shakes his head.)
(The girl paces at the end of the table.)
Girl: It doesn't take much but we do need a plan. Like who will pick us up from school if mum and dad can't?
(The dad shrugs.)
Dad: Uncle
[Music starts]
(Outside in the driveway, the girl and her uncle pulse to the music coming from the minivan behind them. They look at each other and nod.)
(Inside at the table, the girl checks off an item on her checklist.)
(Outside again with her uncle, the girl looks up as she realises something.)
[Music stops]
Girl: What about Mr. V from next door?
(The uncle points to the side and we pan over to see the family's neighbour walking down his driveway with his walker.)
[Music starts]
Uncle: 'Sup Mr. V
(The uncle and neighbour nod at each other.)
[Music stops]
(Back inside, the girl leans over her cousin.)
Girl: And what are you gonna do?
Cousin: I don't even live here.
[Music starts]
(The cousin leans away as the girl leans closer.)
(In a garage, the cousin stands by his two friends.)
Cousin: Hey guys, my cuz [cousin] says we need to make a plan.
[Music stops]
(The friends laugh at the cousin, but he clears his throat and the friends turn to see the girl in the doorway looking grumpy.)
[Music starts]
(The cousin and his friends smile and give the girl a thumbs up. A third friend appears and sits up from a weight bench to do the same.)
(Back inside, the girl paces at the end of the table.)
Girl: We've gotta look after each other.
(The girl points.)
Girl: Even Charles Barkley.
(A dog sits on the floor and tilts head with a whine.)
[Music stops]
(At the table, the mother taps the brother on the shoulder.)
[Music starts]
(All the family file out of the house past the girl. The brother is at the front with the dog in a baby carrier. The girl ticks her checklist as they file past.
Girl: Have your own prep talk so you and your whānau [family] know what to do in a disaster.
(The Civil Defence and New Zealand Government logos appear on the screen. As well as a clipboard that reads 'Have a prep talk getready.govt.nz'.)
Have a prep talk
Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere, and often without warning. It is important to make emergency plans so you know what to do when an emergency happens.
(E noho ana tētahi whānau i te tēpu kai, he tuku kai tētahi ki tētahi, he kōrerorero anō hoki te mahi. E kaurori whakataha ana te kāmera ki tētahi kōtiro i te moka o te tēpu e tīari ana i tētahi papa rawhi.)
Kōtiro: Whakarongo! [Kia areare ngā taringa!]
(Ka hapuru te whakanoho a te kōtiro i tana papa rawhi, ā, ka mutu te kōrero a te whānau ki te whakarongo. Ka huri te whānau ki te titiro ki a ia.)
Kōtiro: E takatū ana tātou ina pā mai tētahi aituā?
(Ka titiro te kōtiro ki tana whānau, ā, he rangirua te āhua.)
(He hopunga tata o te kōtiro e tītaha ana ki tana tungāne.)
Kōtiro: Mēnā kei te korokoro o te parata tātou, kua rite koe?
(Ka rūrū te māhunga o te tungāne.)
(Ka toihā haere te kōtiro i te moka o te tēpu.)
Kōtiro: He māmā noa te mahi, engari e hiahia mārika ana tātou ki tētahi mahere. Mā wai māua e tiki mai i te kura mēnā kāore e taea e māmā rāua ko pāpā?
(Ka hiki te pāpā i ōna pakahiwi.)
Pāpā: A matua kēkē
[Ka tīmata te puoro]
(Kei waho, kei te ara waka, ko te kōtiro rāua ko tana matua kēkē e kanikani ana ki te puoro nā te wākena iti kei muri i a rāua. Ka titiro tētahi ki tētahi me te tungou o te māhunga.)
(Kei roto, i te tēpu, ka māka te kōtiro i tētahi mea i tana rārangi mahi.)
(Kei waho anō i te taha o tana matua kēkē, ka titiro ki runga te kōtiro i tana mārama ki tētahi mea.)
[Ka mutu te puoro]
Kōtiro: Ka pēhea a Mita V ki tua?
(Ka tohutohu te matua kēkē ki te taha, ā, ka kaurori whakataha tātou kia kite ai i te kiritata o te whānau e hīkoi ana i tana ara waka ki tana taumatua hīkoi.)
[Ka tīmata te puoro]
Matua kēkē: Pēhea Mita V
(Ka tungou te matua kēkē rāua ko te kiritata tētahi ki tētahi.)
[Ka mutu te puoro]
(Kei roto anō, ka tītaha te kōtiro i tana kaihana.)
Kōtiro: Ka aha hoki koe?
Kaihana: Kāore tonu au i te noho i konei.
[Ka tīmata te puoro]
(Ka tītaha atu te kaihana i te tītaha tata mai a te kōtiro.)
(I tētahi karāti, ka tū te kaihana i te taha o ōna hoa e rua.)
Kaihana: E hika mā, e kī ana taku kaihana me whakarite e tātou he mahere.
[Ka mutu te puoro]
(Ka kata ngā hoa ki te kaihana, engari ka wharo ia, ā, ka huri ngā hoa kia kite i te kōtiro i te tomokanga, e kiriweti ana tōna āhua.)
[Ka tīmata te puoro]
(Ka menemene te kaihana rātou ko ōna hoa, me te whakatū i ō rātou kōnui ki te kōtiro. Ka puta tētahi hoa tuatoru, ka nohotū ia i tētahi pae hiki maitai me te pērā hoki.)
(Kei roto anō, ka toihā haere te kōtiro i te moka o te tēpu.)
Kōtiro: Me tiaki tātou tētahi i tētahi.
(Ka tohu atu te kōtiro.)
Kōtiro: Tae ana tonu ki a Charles Barkley.
(E noho ana tētahi kurī i te papa, ka tītaha te māhunga, ka kōingoingo hoki.)
[Ka mutu te puoro]
(I te tēpu, ka pā te māmā ki te pakahiwi o te tungāne.)
[Ka tīmata te puoro]
(Katoa te whānau ka haukaiwahine atu i te whare e pahemo ana i te kōtiro. Kei mua ko te tungāne, kei a ia te kurī i roto i tētahi okooko. E māka ana te kōtiro i tana rārangi mahi i a rātau e haukaiwahine atu ana.
Kōtiro: Whakatūria tāu ake kōrerorero whakatakatū, kia mōhio ai koutou ko tō whānau ka pēhea i tētahi aituā.
(Ka kitea ngā tohu a Te Rākau Whakamarumaru me Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa i te mata. Tae ana ki tētahi papa rawhi kei reira ngā kupu ‘Have a prep talk getready.govt.nz’.)
Whakatūria he kōrerorero whakatakatū
Tē mōhiotia āhea, ki hea rānei te ohotata. Kia takatū. Kia mataara.
Get your household ready
It’s up to you to make sure your whānau and the people you care about know what to do.
