Disaster planning?

[Disco Dan]

Who here has a civil defence kit in their home? What about at work?

Your employer is legally bound to have a kit to cover all it's employees, but what about your home? You car?

I'm the Health and Safety rep for over 40 people and have just recently been investigating this and setting up a kit for all the staff and clients on the facility.

Can get quite expensive, but for your average home - you most likely already have a lot of the things you would need.

Think though - water how many of you actually have water stored away, enough for everyone in your household to drink/wash/toilet and change it every 3 months?? I certainly do !

Think about cash - I just heard on the radio how some people always make sure they have some cash for emergencies. ATM's dont work in a black out


So what have you got in place for your home/work/car?



Me:

Work = fully comprehensive civil defence kit
Home = fully comprehensive civil defence kit
bike = first aid kit, torch and selected tools as well as travel phone charger.

[Disco Dan]

Link to employers CD Kit:

http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/memwebsite.nsf/Files/cd-cabinets/$file/cd-cabinets.pdf


Also, if your work place does not have one - and you want a link to the H&S laws saying its law, let me know

[LilSel]

we have them at work... have to change the water in the drums monthly.

also sell them at work... so if ya want one... PM away lol

[Boob Johnson]

The health n safety rep rides a big nasty motorbike, oh the irony


ps: yep have one here at work/home but not the car

[Disco Dan]

The health n safety rep rides a big nasty motorbike, oh the irony


ps: yep have one here at work/home but not the car

hell yeah !

So what happens if disaster strikes while your driving?

You will need to contact family members, get to point of safety etc etc

[Boob Johnson]

hell yeah !

So what happens if disaster strikes while your driving?

You will need to contact family members, get to point of safety etc etc

If it's raining, needs more than three seats or im doin the groceries then I drive & it's all city stuff. Other than that it's all on two wheels

[Dave-]

I DO NOT NEED WATER, IN A TIME OF EMERGENCY I WILL HUNT BEER!

i live on the second floor so ill just stay shit faced for the whole thing...wait the beer is down stairs...

alex, get me a cold one yeh?

[Disco Dan]

I have a emergency bottle of wine. Used to have an emergency box of beer.. but I drank it. Was not even an emergency hehe

[barty5]

bike = first aid kit, torch and selected tools as well as travel phone charger.
you for spare navman charger i remember you needing one a while back.

[Morcs]

I think its a load of crap. In the event of a disaster Ill cope and im sure lots of others will without some red tape.

Survival of the fittest. The government is trying to interfere with nature and evolution.

[jrandom]

Civil defence kit? I have an M14 and several thousand rounds of ammunition.

Way I figure it, when disaster strikes, some sorry-arse unarmed motherfucker's gonna give me their water.

[sunhuntin]

nothing at home or at work... we have a first aid kit, but thats it! but then again, my emplyoers crap for following laws, so somehow im not surprised.

[martybabe]

Civil defence kit? I have an M14 and several thousand rounds of ammunition.

Way I figure it, when disaster strikes, some sorry-arse unarmed motherfucker's gonna give me their water.

Haha,I got one of them,(the end is nigh fellas) across the way from me.He's stockpiling apples for the end of days.Guess where I'm going if I get hungry.

Giz them apples

[Disco Dan]

Civil defence kit? I have an M14 and several thousand rounds of ammunition.

Way I figure it, when disaster strikes, some sorry-arse unarmed motherfucker's gonna give me their water.

riiiight... so while your sitting there fiddling about loading it, somone can just give you a quick bop and take your stuff!


..Seriously though, it is worth thinking about - we are living in a volatile country (compared to others) and with global warming and the weather becoming more and more extreme each year - something big happening in the next few years or so is a very real possibility.

[gunnyrob]

Hey Disco, I'm in the Air force, so in the event of a disaster, we'll be either getting the choppers off to where they'll be needed or we'll be filling sandbags etc.

Tax dollars in action!