What are the three critical steps to create a emergency preparedness plan for your household in case of emergency?
September is National Preparedness Month and IÂ’ll be joining The Clorox Company and Consumer Queen, along with several other bloggers, to spread the word about emergency preparedness.
Disasters can happen quickly and unexpectedly. The most important step to staying safe is being prepared BEFORE an emergency occurs.
Emergency Preparedness Plan
When designing your emergency preparedness plan, you can implement the following three easy steps:
- Purchase or build an emergency preparedness kit – Your kit should house enough supplies to last your household a minimum of three days for evacuations and 2 weeks for emergencies at home. Next week, I’ll offer specific tips on building a disaster kit with your family.
- Make an emergency preparedness plan – Schedule a meeting in your household to discuss what to do in case you are separated during an emergency. Choose two places to meet – one right outside the house and the other outside your neighborhood. Be sure to practice and review the plan twice a year!
- Get educated – Get to know the types of disasters (e.g. hurricanes, floods or forest fires) prevalent in your area so that you can better tailor both your kit and plan. Find out how local officials will contact residents of your city to advise of important safety information. AND, get first aid training. Learn critical techniques like CPR and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
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Prepare Yourself Now for Peace of Mind Later
Households should create or purchase an emergency preparedness kit with enough supplies for everyone to last three days for evacuations and two weeks for emergencies at home. Include things like: water, non-perishable food, flashlight, radio, first aid kit, a multi-purpose tool, important medications and copies of personal documents. You may also include household liquid bleach such as Clorox for cleaning and disinfecting and emergency water sanitation.
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Giveaway – Your Emergency Preparedness Kit
Each week I’ll be giving away a $25 gift card so that you can create your own emergency preparedness kit. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post, or re-tweet this post with hashtag #preparedness and leave a comment.
Example Tweet: How to Create an Emergency Preparedness Plan http://bit.ly/czeLKZ Enter to win a $25 GC from @Clorox #Preparedness Please RT
Disclosure:Â As a blog tour participant, I received information and giveaways from The Clorox Company and Consumer Queen at no cost to me. I was compensated for my time by The Clorox Company for participating in this project. All views are my own.
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This is very timely information with the anniversary of 9/11 being tomorrow.
It is awesome to have this giveaway now with tomorrow being 9/11. Thank You for the chance to enter. I tweeted it as well.
I belong to the Salvation Army and so getting this out there is very important. People always think it could never happen to them, but being prepared is so important for safety, health, and peace of mind. One of the schools in my area has each child bring a little survival bag. They are to include things like granola bars, flashlight, family photo, etc. What a great thing to teach our children to be prepared even when away from their home.
Great reminder, thank you. My dad is a fireman so we’ve always talked about these things, but it’s never too often to have a reminder. I need to double check that hubby knows where our 2 giant “emergency” duffel bags are, now that I think of it.
Thanks for the giveaway, good luck to everyone!