Sarina

Are you or your business prepared for an emergency or natural disaster?

A free information session and workshop on how to best prepare for the upcoming Storm Season will be held on 22 November 2011 at 7pm for local residents and business owners in Sarina. 

Emergency Management Queensland will do a presentation on preparing your business and/or your home, emergency kits and Disaster Management roles of State and Local government. The focus will be on resilience and the role of planning and managing risk. Residents and business will have the opportunity to do an emergency evacuation plan for their home or business. Business will also have the opportunity to commence preparing a continuity plan.

With the Storm Season upon us, residents and business are being reminded to be prepared and not to wait for a disaster to happen.

When a disaster strikes communities can be isolated and essential services disrupted for up to three days or more. Residents may also not have immediate access to support and will need to rely on the supplies and equipment they have on hand at home. Staff may not be able to return to work for a few days. It is important for business to have strategies and a continuity plan to be able to recover and re-open for business.

The severe weather experiences in Queensland last summer reminds us that we cannot afford to be complacent about the dangers presented by seasonal weather events.

Experts in disaster management can establish strategies to mitigate severe weather events, but business and residents should also be prepared to do what they can to protect themselves and their property.

These sessions are brought to you thanks to Mackay Regional Council.

To find out more about how you, your business and your local community can be prepared for cyclones, floods or urban/rural fires, simply come along to the upcoming free information session and workshop.                                                                                                                                

Date: 22 November 2011
Time: 7pm     
Venue: Sarina Primary School Hall, Broad St, Sarina

Please contact council’s Community Resilience Project Officer Mandy Lavarack on 4961 9671 for more information.