Owners & Managers
Get Ready Test for Building and Business Owners and Managers
Will your business, employees and occupants be safe and ready in the event of an emergency? Take our test.
Have you:
1. Ensured that your staff and tenants are familiar with the safety sites and the emergency responses shelter in place, evacuate to safety site, stay at work and return to work?
2. Developed specific plans for each of these measures?
3. Encourage your staff / occupants to develop a personal emergency plan and a Go Bag?
4. Registered for SydneyALERT?
5. Formed a Crisis Management Team with appropriate roles and responsibilities to take control in an emergency?
6. Put in place an emergency management plan?
7. Confirmed that this emergency management plan complies with relevant legislation and Australian standards?
8. Organised regular reviews of the emergency plan to ensure it remains up-to-date?
9. Obtained or mapped building floor plans and site plans identifying items such as power, water and gas supply, local roads, neighbours?
10. Introduced a process for maintaining emergency equipment?
11. Developed a business continuity plan that covers relocation of facilities, information protection, asset replacement, service delivery maintenance, succession planning, public relations and reputation management, employee assistance programs and media management?
12. Introduced an awareness and training program for your staff and tenants relating to the emergency management plan?
13. Devised a post-evacuation procedure to check that everyone has left the premises?
14. Created a readily-accessible list of key emergency contacts?
15. Talked to neighbouring businesses about their emergency planning?
16. Conducted an annual risk assessment for the business and its operations?
17. Established a back-up communications system for emergencies?
18. Encouraged staff and tenants to prepare personal emergency plans?
(If you answered YES to 75% of the questions)
Your preparations are going well– congratulations! Review your “no” answers to make your emergency planning preparations even better.
(If you answered YES to 50%-75% of the questions)
It’s great that you’ve started work on your emergency preparations. You may not, however, have considered all the impacts a serious disruption could have on your business. The advice on this website will help you make your preparations even better.
(If you answered YES to less than 50% of the questions)
You have not made many emergency preparations. You should obtain the information you require to adequately prepare your business or building. A summary of the information you might need is on this website; however, you may need to obtain more detailed and specific information for your circumstances. Remember: the more prepared you are, the less an emergency will impact upon your employees and tenants.