Category: Emergency Action Plan

Prep Your Health by Reviewing Important Paperwork

Young woman helping an elderly woman complete a form

The importance of proofreading everything you write before you turn it in is a lesson many people learn in elementary school. For much of our early lives, the lesson applies almost exclusively to things like book reports and term papers. The need to check personal paperwork for errors and omissions becomes even more important in Read More >

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Lost and Found: Reuniting with Loved Ones in an Emergency

Mother and daughter embracing sitting on couch

More than a collection of names, phone numbers, and street addresses, an Emergency Action Plan is an instruction manual for how to stay healthy, stay informed, and stay connected in an emergency. It’s important that everyone in your household know how to inform family, friends, and caregivers of their well-being and whereabouts when a disaster Read More >

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After the Storm: 3 Types of Post-Disaster Poisonings to Know, Prepare For

A portable generator placed outside and in a dry area on the ground.

National Poison Prevention Week (March 17-23) was started in 1962 to encourage Americans to “learn of the dangers of accidental poisoning and to take such preventive measures as are warranted by the seriousness of the danger.” Fifty-seven years later, those threats—and probably some new ones—to personal and public health persist. They can also be prepared Read More >

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