Our simple 12-step guide to business continuity planning can help you create a plan for your business or organisation.

Create your own Business Continuity Plan - download this template, save it to your computer and follow the steps in the guide to complete your plan

Download this template to record information so that authorised person(s) can run your business in your absence.

A Community Emergency Hub is a place where you and your neighbours can go to help each other in a major emergency. 

Find out more in this video, translated in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). 

Flow chart to deciding whether to open a Community Emergency Hub. 

Read your local Community Emergency Hub Guide.

Learn some New Zealand Sign Language that will help you communicate with a Deaf person in the event of an emergency.

Your guide to help you and your household be better prepared for an earthquake in the Wellington region. This guide is available in 16 different languages.

> View and download the guide in other languages

Make a household plan with your whānau using this template. 

Make an emergency plan with your household using this template.

This lifestyle block preparedness handbook gives you detailed advice on how to prepare for an emergency to keep you, your whānau and animals safe.

Your guide to making an emergency toilet when you can't flush your loo. 

Use this flowchart to make sure your water is safe to drink after an emergency.

How much water will you need in the days following a major earthquake?

There a simple steps you can take to make water safe in an emergency, including boiling and using bleach.

Best practice guidance jointly developed by the National Emergency Management Agency and the
Ministry of Education to help those involved in the education and care of young children at Early Childhood Education services to develop Emergency Plans and put them into practice. 

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Display poster showing the tectonic plates in the world. 

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Kids activity sheet about earthquakes, tsunami, the hikurangi subduction zone and the earth's structure.

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Award winning bilingual children’s story book supporting tsunami and earthquake preparedness and encourages young children and their families to understand the correct actions to take in the event of a large earthquake, and what they need to do if they are in a tsunami zone.

Emergency and hazard learning activity sheet for kids in te Reo Māori. 

Emergency preparedness colouring book for kids. 

Activity sheet for students to learn about slow slip events on the east coast. 

Display poster about earthquakes and tsunami at the Hikurangi Subduction Zone.