Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ) has joined with Australian Red Cross to provide a Queensland version of the booklet: Emergency REDiPlan: Household preparedness for people with a disability, their families and carers. The REDiPlan initiative is a step toward building more resilient communities in Queensland and improves the ability for people with physical disabilities, and their carers to prevent, prepare, respond to and recover from emergencies. The booklet provides worksheets on the four steps to prepare for emergencies and is tailored to meet specific needs of people with a physical disability. These include:

• Step 1 - Be informed
• Step 2 - Make a Plan
• Step 3 - Get an emergency kit
• Step 4 - know your neighbours.

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The main objects of this Act are as follows:

1. To help communities:
   • mitigate the potential adverse effects of an event; and
   • prepare for managing the effects of an event; and
   • effectively respond to, and recover from, a disaster or an emergency situation.
2. To provide for effective disaster management for the State;
3. To establish a framework for the management of the State Emergency Service and emergency service units to ensure the effective performance of their functions.

The act can be found from the legislation.qld.gov.au website (679Kb PDF opens in new window).