Guides for emergencies
Practical guides: making water safe, food without power, shelter, looking after your family and medicines. All of it also works offline in the free SurvivalZone.app.
- 💧 How to make water safe – Boiling, tablets, filters, sunlight · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🍲 Food without power – Fridge, stove, food safety · ⏱ 1 min read
- ⛺ Shelter at home and outdoors – Safe room, protection from cold · ⏱ 2 min read
- 👨👩👧 Protecting your family and yourself – Plan, roles, children, older people · ⏱ 2 min read
- 💊 Run out of medicine – Pharmacy, prescription, what to do, home remedies · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🎒 Go bag checklist – What to pack when you must leave home fast · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🩹 Home first aid kit – What it should contain and how to store it · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🔦 Prepare your home for a blackout – A checklist for a long power cut · ⏱ 2 min read
- ✈️ Air travel: a safe trip – Before the flight, on board and when things go wrong · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🏜️ Desert trip – Water, heat, navigation and a plan if things fail · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🪢 Knots worth knowing – 6 knots for camping, trips and emergencies · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🔥 Campfire and outdoor cooking – How to light a fire safely and what to cook · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🧭 Survival kit for your backpack – What to carry on trips and outdoors · ⏱ 2 min read
- 📞 Family communication plan – How to find each other when phones don't work · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🥫 Emergency food and medicine supplies – A shopping list of long-life products · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🧼 Hygiene in a crisis – When there is no water, power or heating · ⏱ 2 min read
- 📁 Documents and money in a crisis – A document folder, copies and cash · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🧰 Tools and equipment for a crisis – What to keep at home and in the car · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🧥 Clothing and warmth in a crisis – How to dress and stay warm without heating · ⏱ 2 min read
- 📻 Communication and navigation in a crisis – Radio, offline maps and contact without the network · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🥶 Home ready for frost – Warm room, layers, safe heating · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🌊 Prepare your home for floods – Risk map, documents, when to leave · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🔥 Fire safety at home – Smoke alarm, fire blanket, way out · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🌡️ Get ready for a heatwave – Cool home, water, checking on older people · ⏱ 3 min read
- ⛈️ Storm-proof your home – Roof, garden, car, warnings · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🚀 Shelter for an air raid – Safe spot, bag, nearest shelter · ⏱ 3 min read
- 📢 Sirens and alerts – Signals, phone alerts, sealing a room · ⏱ 3 min read
- ❤️ Learn CPR and find an AED – Course, steps, defibrillator · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🌍 Prepare for earthquakes – Furniture, three moves, travel · ⏱ 3 min read
- ⛵ Safe sailing at sea – Forecast, lifejackets, VHF, plan ashore · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🚗 Car ready for an accident – Kit, first aid, ICE contact · ⏱ 2 min read
- ☠️ Carbon monoxide and gas alarms – Alarms, chimney checks, symptoms · ⏱ 2 min read
- ❄️ Winter car kit – Blanket, shovel, power bank, fuel · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🌩️ Mountain storms: plan your hike – Forecast, early start, turnaround time · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🫀 Heart attack and stroke signs – Recognise, call at once, note the time · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🏊 Water safety – Children, lifejackets, currents, lifeguards · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🌲 Prevent wildfires – Campfires, bans, homes near forests · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🦠 Prepare for an epidemic or pandemic – Vaccines, medicines, 2 weeks of supplies · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🧒 If your child gets lost – What to teach, photo, meeting point · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🫁 Prevent choking – Cutting food, toys, batteries · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🩸 Kit for severe bleeding – Pressure dressing, tourniquet, course · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🔥 Prevent burns – Kitchen, bathroom, 20 minutes of cooling · ⏱ 2 min read
- 😷 Smog: protect your health – Air quality, masks, purifier · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🐻 Bears: avoid encounters – Trail, noise, food, notices · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🐗 Wild boar: avoid encounters – Bins, garden, dog on a lead · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🏢 Evacuation at work – Exits, assembly point, fire drills · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🌪️ Shelter from a tornado – Safe room, helmets, warning signs · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🌧️ Protect your basement from flash floods – Non-return valve, gutters, garage, insurance · ⏱ 2 min read
- ☣️ Chemical incident: prepare your home – Room to seal, tape, radio · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🏠 Quarantine at home – Supplies, outside help, daily plan · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🛡️ Secure your phone and accounts – Two-step login, family code word, backups · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🔌 Your fuse box: get ready in advance – Labelled circuits, RCD test, torch · ⏱ 2 min read
- 💨 Gas at home: a safe installation – Shut-off valve, annual check, ventilation, alarms · ⏱ 2 min read
- 😵💫 Fainting: how to prevent it – Warning signs, drinking enough, first aid skills · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🏫 School and emergencies: prepare your child and family – School procedures, talking to your child, collection · ⏱ 3 min read
- 🏜️ Drought: how to prepare your home and garden – Water stock, saving water, rainwater, fires · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🌋 Travelling near volcanoes: how to prepare – Trip registration, masks, insurance, cancelled flights · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🛴 Riding an e-scooter safely – Helmet, lights, rules, battery charging · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🛑 Attacker at school: how to prepare your child – Talking with your child, the school’s plan, warning signs · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🔔 Smoke and CO alarms: a home ready for the alarm – Where to fit them, how to test, escape plan · ⏱ 2 min read
- 🔥 Campfire: types and ways to light one – Site, tinder, fire lays, safety · ⏱ 5 min read
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General guidance only; it does not replace the emergency services. If a life is in danger, call 112.
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