Six steps to
resilience

Preparing
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5

Preparing Staff and Volunteers

5c

Summary

In many instances, staff and volunteers are members of the community in which they work. That means that when your organisation and clients are impacted by an emergency, your staff and volunteers probably will be too.

Staff and Volunteer Preparedness Tips

Here are some tips on how to help prepare your staff and volunteers:

Provide your staff and volunteers with REDiPlan booklets to use in their households
Run a preparedness workshop
Have a day in which you invite all of your staff and volunteers to bring in their important documents so they can scan and save them to a usb or cloud service
Include preparedness information in your welcome pack for new staff and volunteers
Ensure your staff and volunteers’ emergency contact information is up to date

REDiPlan

A REDiPlan is also a useful tool to help staff and volunteers prepare for disasters and emergencies. See Module 5c below for further details.

Downloads

Disaster Plan for Community Organisations Template

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Further Information

Check out Red Cross' REDiPlan resources.

The Australian Government's Comcare webpage also contains useful information about creating a mentally healthy workplace for workers and volunteers.

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REDiPlan

5d

REDiPlan is Red Cross’ all-hazards emergency preparedness tool that can be used by people and households throughout Australia.