Civil Defence advice
Disasters can strike at any time and often without warning.
Know what to do before you have to do it.
Remember if there is an emergency, the chances are you will get
information first and fastest on radio and television, so keep listening.
The same emergency information will be broadcast on all stations.
At Home
Your Emergency Plan
Develop a household emergency plan which includes:
- Where to shelter in an earthquake, flood or storm.
- Who is responsible for checking essential items in your Emergency
Survival Kit.
- How to turn off gas, water and electricity at the mains.
- How to maintain contact with each other during an emergency.
- How to contact your local civil defence organisation for assistance
during an emergency.
Some other useful advice:
- Know the local Civil Defence warning system.
- If possible, know the location of your nearest Civil Defence or
Community Emergency Centre (normally the nearest state Primary School).
- Learn first aid. Contact your local Red Cross or Order of St John
Office for information on courses.
- Learn how to control small fires and escape larger ones.
- Have a small bag ready for your Getaway Kit.
In your Street
Join or form a neighbourhood support group.
You and your neighbours will have skills and resources that can be vital
in an emergency. Start discussing today what you can do to assist each
other and set up a support group.
SNAP (Safe Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) Programme
An easy to follow 3-step process will help you get your neighborhood
organised and prepared to take care of each other.
SNAP Programme
 (40k)
Your Emergency Survival Kit
If you prefer to keep your Emergency Survival Kit items in the house for
everyday use, make sure you know where to find them when an emergency
occurs.
Your Kit should contain:
- Food and water – enough for 3 days.
- Canned or dried food
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A can opener
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A primus or BBQ to cook on
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Bottled water (3 litres per person per day)
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Check and renew the food and water every 12 months.
- First Aid Kit and essential medicines
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Spare toilet paper and plastic rubbish bags for your emergency toilet
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Pet supplies
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Waterproof torches and spare batteries
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Radio and spare batteries
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Check the batteries every three months.
- Wind proof and rainproof
- Sun hats
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Blankets or sleeping bags
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Strong shoes for outdoors
- Supplies for babies and small children
- Food and drink
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Change of clothing
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Favourite toy or activity
- Special supplies for those with disabilities
- Hearing aids
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Mobility aids
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Glasses
Your First Aid Kit
You should have a complete First Aid kit available in your home. If you
can't get a complete one or would prefer to make one up yourself, the
following list is recommended by The Order of St. John as a minimum guide
suitable for families:
- Triangular bandages (2)
- Roller bandages - 50 mm (1 roll) and 75mm (2 rolls)
- Sterile gauze - 7.5cm x 7.5 cm (2)
- Adhesive wound dressing - 6cm wide x 1 metre long (1 strip)
- Plaster strip dressings (1 packet)
- Adhesive tape - 25 mm hypoallergenic (1 roll)
- Sterile non-adhesive pads - small (2) and large (3)
- Sterile eye pad (1)
- Eye wash container (1)
- Eye wash solution - saline steritube 30 ml (1)
- Antiseptic solution - chlorhexidine steritube 30 ml (4)
- Safety pins (1 card)
- Scissors (1 pair)
- Splinter forceps (1 pair)
- Disposable gloves (2 pair)
- Accident register and pencil
- First aid manual
- Card listing local emergency numbers
Your Getaway Kit
Everyone should have a small bag for a Getaway Kit, ready for evacuation.
Most of the items are part of your Emergency Survival Kit. Other items
include:
- Family documents (birth/marriage certificates, drivers' licences,
passports, family photos and insurance policies.)
- Personal hygiene items (towels/soap & toothbrushes, and a change of
clothes).
Free text-based Civil Defence notification scheme
Rodney residents have the option of notification of civil defence
emergencies sent direct to their mobile phones. This is a service provided by the Rodney District Council and
Auckland-based communications provider OPTN Limited.
The service is free. However, mobile phone users will have to register
their numbers to have the service provided. There will be a small one-off
charge of 50 cents if registering by text.
The new service is based on an existing texting product provided by
OPTN, but has been modified for emergency alerting purposes specifically
for Rodney.
At this stage the messaging service will be
activated only in the event of a tsunami, an impending localised emergency
such as a cyclone, or when a Civil Defence Emergency is likely to be
declared.
The only costs to the subscriber are a one-off 50 cent registration fee
if registering from their mobile phone, and a 50 cent deregistration fee.
Registration can be made by texting OPTNRDCD to 2678.
Alternatively registration is FREE by signing a permission form
available at Rodney District Council Offices in Orewa, Warkworth,
Helensville, and Huapai, and you can also deregister by calling 0800
OPTN4ME (0800 678 6463).
Publications and resources
An Emergency Plan Could Save Your Life
An Emergency Plan Could Save Your Life is a brochure that has been
produced by the Auckland Region Emergency Management Group (www.cdemg.org.nz).
The brochure outlines the key things you can do better prepare you and your
family in the event of a disaster.
An Emergency Plan Could Save Your Life
(717k)
Rodney District Council Civil Defence Plan
The objectives of this CDEM Local Plan are:
- To describe the basis of the provision of the discrete and local
CDEM activities (as outlined in Section 17 of the CDEM Act 2004) within
the Rodney District.
- To identify and secure the means of ensuring that the Rodney
District Council is able to function to the fullest possible extent
during and after an emergency.
- To document the arrangements for a transition to control by the
Group Controller should an emergency become a regionally significant
event.
Civil Defence Plan 2005  (40k)
Get Ready, Get Thru brochure
The information in this brochure will show you how to look after yourself, your
family, home, business and community. It will help you get ready, so you’ll get
through.
Get Ready, Get Thru
(403k)
Please note:
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these documents.
Contacts and useful links
Our Civil Defence team can be contacted through our Customer Service Centre
on 0800 426 5169 or email
chris.laird@rodney.govt.nz.
You may also want to refer to the following Civil Defence websites:
Get Ready, Get
Thru
Auckland Civil
Defence Emergency Management Group
Ministry of
Civil Defence
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