About Emergency Kit Plan
Emergency Kit Plan is a free planner for a household emergency kit. You say who lives in your home. It shows the list of the government you choose, and the amounts where it gives them, worked out for your household, and you tick off what you have.
Not an official site
Emergency Kit Plan is independent. It is not a government site, and no government has approved it. It shows official advice in the source's own words and names the source each time.
It never says that a plan makes a household safe. A plan shows what you have against a list. It cannot know your home, your health or your area, so read your own government's advice as well.
Where the figures come from
Where a government gives a number of days, a water amount or an item, we show it from that government's source, which we read at its source. The planner shows the words of the source, the date we read it and a link. Today the planner holds 28 source records and covers 15 governments' advice: Australia by state and territory, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union's 72 hours for everywhere else.
Three kinds of plan
- My government's advice. The list of the government you choose, with its amounts where it gives them.
- Strictest official advice. The longest time and the highest amount of drinking water among the governments we read: today 10 days, from Germany. No one government gives both figures. Amounts that also cover washing or cooking are shown beside it and are not added to it, because they do not measure the same thing.
- My own plan. Start from either one, then change the days, the water and the items.
Our own starting values
Some governments give no number of days or no water amount. The plan then starts from a value of ours and says so on the screen: 3 days, and 3 litres of water for each person each day, which is the highest amount for drinking only among the sources we read (United Kingdom and Tasmania). You can change both.
How we count food
The meal count is ours. No government we read gives a number of meals. The target is 3 meals a day for each adult and child, for each day of the plan. One tin of beans, soup, fish or meat counts as one meal for one person. Food that needs heat or boiled water counts only if you say that you can cook without mains power. A baby's food is in the Baby list, not in the meal count.
Units
A plan shows water in its government's own unit, and you can switch. One US gallon is 3.785412 litres (NIST (opens in a new tab)).
Contact
Spotted an error, or have a question? Email hello@emergencykitplan.com.
Type
Barlow Condensed and Figtree, SIL Open Font Licence. Barlow Condensed licence, Figtree licence.