A Home Emergency Action Plan Booklet has been put together to give you some basic information on how you can help yourself and your family in emergencies. A lot of this is based on common-sense advice and may seem obvious or familiar to you, but it has saved lives in the past.
The booklet prompts you to capture and write down important contact information such as personal emergency telephone numbers, non-emergency telephone numbers and important household contact details. Should you be asked to evacuate your home during an emergency, it would also help preparing a Grab Bag containing essential items according to you and your family’s needs and the time of year.
To increase resilience, members of your local community may have drawn up a Community Emergency Response Plan. You can find out by contacting your local council. If so, find out who is part of your Community Emergency Response Team and the arrangements they have in place to help support you in emergencies.
Although there are no statutory responsibilities for communities to plan for, respond to, or recover from emergencies, it is good practice to identify hazards and make simple plans on how they could respond to them.
Kitabu cha Mipango ya Dharura ya Nyumbani (Homeland Emergency Action Plan) kinaonyesha jinsi ya kujisaidia na familia yako katika hali ya dharura. Mengi ya haya yanategemea ushauri wa akili ya kawaida na inaweza kuonekana wazi au ya kawaida kwako, lakini imeokoa maisha katika siku za nyuma. Kitabu hiki kinakuomba uandike na kuandika habari muhimu za mawasiliano kama vile nambari za simu za dharura, nambari za simu zisizo za dharura na maelezo muhimu ya mawasiliano ya nyumbani. Ikiwa utahitaji kuondoka nyumbani wakati wa dharura, itasaidia pia kuandaa mfuko wa kubeba unaojumuisha vitu muhimu kulingana na mahitaji yako na ya familia yako na wakati wa mwaka. Ili kuongeza uwezo wa kukabiliana na hali hiyo, huenda washiriki wa jumuiya yako ya mahali hapo wakafanya Mpango wa Kujibu Hali ya Dharura ya Jumuiya. Unaweza kujua kwa kuwasiliana na halmashauri yako ya eneo lako. Ikiwa ndivyo, tafuta ni nani anayehusika katika Timu ya Majibu ya Dharura ya Jumuiya yako na mipango wanayo ya kukusaidia katika hali za dharura. Ingawa hakuna majukumu ya kisheria kwa jamii kupanga, kukabiliana, au kupona kutoka kwa hali ya dharura, ni mazoezi mazuri kutambua hatari na kufanya mipango rahisi juu ya jinsi wanaweza kukabiliana nazo.