Home Grab N Go bags

When a disaster or emergency occurs, it’s best to stay at home if it’s safe. You’ll need to be prepared with enough food, water, and other emergency supplies such as lighting, radio, first aid etc to last each member of the household for three days. Make sure everyone knows where the emergency food, water, first aid, and other supplies are kept.

Basically you’ll need:

• 9 litres of water for each person (3 litres per person x 3 days);
• long-lasting food, including food for children and pets;
• emergency toilet;>
• dust masks and strong work gloves.

Evacuation – grab n go bags

However, you may need to leave home suddenly if you are required to evacuate either your property or even the whole neighbourhood. 

Having emergency items in one place such as in a bag that is easily located saves time and stress, especially if there’s an emergency at night and you have to evacuate your home without electric lighting being available.

Our home grab n go bags are designed to provide basic emergency supplies if you need to leave your place in a hurry. You may want to add more items to the bag supplied, such as:

• Torches plus batteries
• Radio plus batteries
• Hand cleaner
• Cash
• Copies of important documents
• Walking shoes, warm clothes, raincoat, headwear
• First aid kit, prescription medicines
• Water and snack food (including for babies and pets)

Don’t forget to add a hygiene vac pack kit to your emergency kit. This could include children’s hygiene, personal hygiene or general hygiene (toilet roll for example) – keep all your hygiene requirements well sealed in our vac packs.

The Ministry of Civil Defence has information about getting your household prepared for an emergency.