In Australia, natural disasters such as floods and fire can strike without warning, so it’s important to make sure your business is resilient in times of crisis.

How can you prepare your business?

Being prepared for an emergency can help you:

  • identify risks to critical areas of your business and how to best protect them
  • know what you and your staff need to do during an emergency situation
  • make sure that if the worst happens, you have the tools and support in place to help you get back to business.

If you’ve prepared well for a disaster, your business will recover more efficiently.

Download our emergency management and recovery plan template to help you through the process of creating a solid, well-structured plan tailored to your business.

Develop an emergency management plan

What to do in an emergency?

If an emergency or disaster happens, your first priority is safety of you, your employees and customers.

When faced with an emergency situation, it’s important to:

  • follow emergency procedures
  • be guided by emergency services personnel and listen to their advice if you need to evacuate
  • be aware of any immediate emergency.

Learn more about what to do in an emergency and how to recover.

What to do in an emergency

Stay up-to-date in an emergency

Go to the Disaster Assist for Australia's responses to emergencies, disasters and security incidents.

Disaster Assist

Emergency services updates, alerts and warnings in the ACT.

ACT Emergency Services Agency

Emergency services updates, alerts and warnings in NSW.

NSW State Emergency Service

Emergency services updates, alerts and warnings in the NT.

Secure NT

Emergency services updates, alerts and warnings in QLD.

QLD State Emergency Service

Emergency updates, alerts and warnings in SA.

South Australian State Emergency Services

Emergency updates, alerts and warnings in TAS.

TAS State Emergency Service

Emergency updates, alerts and warnings in VIC.

VIC State Emergency Service

Emergency updates, alerts and warnings in WA.

Western Australia Department of Fire and Emergency Services

Continuing your business

Business continuity allows you to keep doing business until things return to normal.

Learn the steps you can take to help keep your business running during a disaster.

Continuing your business

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