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Get Ready Sydney Test for Workers

Will you be ready in the event of an emergency? Take our test. Have you:

1. Made arrangements with your family, partner or close friends including your Personal Emergency Plan and a meeting place?

2. Developed a personal Contact List with important phone numbers such as family details and children's school and/or daycare numbers?

3. Prepared a Worker’s Go Bag?

4. Talked to your manager about your company’s emergency management plan?

5. Had your evacuation procedures explained by your manager or warden, and rehearsed them regularly?

6. Talked with your child’s school or daycare centre about their emergency preparedness and response procedures?

7. Worked out how you are going to get home if public transport is not working or the roads are congested?

8. Learned about the Safety Sites if you work in the CBD?

9. Checked that evacuation plans for your less mobile colleagues are in place ?

10. Learned the possible directives you may receive (i.e evacuate, shelter in place, stay at work, return to work), and what they mean?

11. Identified your building manager or warden?

12. Identified how you might receive messages internally during an emergency?

(If you answered YES to 75% of the questions)

Your preparations are going well– congratulations! This website will give you more tips to make your preparations even more effective.

(If you answered YES to 50%-75% of the questions)

It’s great that you’ve started work on your emergency preparations. However, there’s a lot more you need to consider. 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, perhaps because you don’t like thinking about the subject. Remember: the more prepared you are, the better you will cope in an emergency. The advice on this website will help you to get ready.