Emergency Planning

Family Emergency Contact Plan

You and your family may not all be together when an emergency occurs and it will then become important to contact one another. This is where a Family Emergency Contact Plan will be useful. Vulnerable family members, such as children, the elderly or the disabled may become particularly anxious during an emergency and require reassurance.

• Each family member should know the contact details of the others.
• Find out about emergency plans at work, at your children’s school or any place where you and your family spends time.
• Decide amongst yourselves how you will contact one another in an emergency at the times where you are not all together e.g. working/school time during the week.
• Consider using a relative or friend as a central point of contact.
• Consider using a relative or friends house outside your neighbourhood, that would be accessible to all as a rendezvous point, should your family not be able to return home.

 

ICE

If you should be alone or in a situation where no-one knows you and you become injured and unconscious in an emergency, how are those closest to you going to find out about your situation? For those with mobile phones, if you store the word "ICE" in your address book, which stands for "In Case of Emergency" and against it store the number of the person you would want contacted, then the emergency services will be able to quickly contact that person for you. For more information, see ICE.