Be prepared for an emergency
Make sure your business is prepared this season and know what to do in an emergency situation.
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.
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.
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.