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Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Businesses

by Luke Robinson, from the Community

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Use this emergency preparedness checklist to get your business ready for natural disasters and critical incidents. It guides you through emergency actions and evacuation, contacting emergency services, safeguarding and backing up key records, maintaining communications, arranging backup utilities, relocating operations or enabling remote work, cross‑training staff for coverage, and setting alternative distribution channels. Based on risk management guidance from business.gov.au.

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Use this checklist to prepare your business for emergencies and maintain continuity. It guides you through reviewing insurance coverage, securing premises, scheduling maintenance, backing up and protecting data, keeping critical contacts, establishing and testing evacuation procedures to AS3745-2010, training staff and contractors, assembling an emergency kit, and assigning response roles. Capture details like first aider contact and nearest hospital, and run regular drills to keep plans current.

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