Prepare your organisation

Resilient Community Organisations is a comprehensive toolkit developed by and for the community sector to help organisations measure and improve their resilience to disasters and emergencies. The self-assessment tool on the ACOSS Resilience website is a good starting point for building your organisation’s disaster resilience.

Benchmark your organisation

Mentally preparing people in your organisation for when emergencies and disasters happen is an important step to building resilient organisations too. This infographic from the Australian Psychological Society is a simple tool to start a conversation with your staff – and for your staff to use with NDIS Participants – about mentally preparing for any type of emergency or disaster.

Mentally prepare for bushfire season

Also check out the R4NED Resilience and NDIS staff guide for practical steps to take to build a resilient workforce in the Support your staff section of the R4NED website here: Recover together

Having a workforce contingency plan is critical to ensuring you can continue to support people during emergencies and disasters.

Read our ideas on what you can do to make sure you can continue to operate when emergencies and disasters happen.

R4NED Workforce planning for emergencies and disasters

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Everyone in your organisation – managers, organisational support staff, and frontline workers – has critical roles in keeping both them and the NDIS Participants they support safe during an emergency or disaster.

Use this presentation to explain to your staff what their roles and responsibilities are in emergency and disaster management.

It can be amended to your organisation’s specific context.

R4NED Staff responsibilities

PowerPoint presentation