emergency preparedness by design
October 25, 2023We recently updated our emergency plan for our share home realising there would only be 3 people not 4 to prepare and possibly wrangle our valued stuff, 6 chickens, and 2 cats into a car; and go to move a horse potentially all at the same time. We will not ‘stay and defend’ (beyond once evacuation is advised) as we are within a high bushfire zone and have a lot of eucalypt tree canopy; so we have decided we don’t have the skills and equipment to do that safely.
To design the plan, I used canva – template searching for ’emergency’ – it gave me a roadmap/ journey
Self critique on the design:
– evac plans need clear stages for action escalation
– I realised a check of the print size and margins was forgotten …
– the blob of fire with call out text (for stage identification) could go near the #2 for consistency with other call-out text…a version without the fire blob would be cleaner (but less fun)
– I made the font larger for the more critical instruction on the right. Not sure that really looks great but it can be useful when stressed to have a larger font to read (if you needed to!).
Not a bad night’s amusement for the family on a Sunday spring night
Hopefully we will not have to activate it this summer.
Have you updated your plans?
