Protecting your health in a natural disaster
When a natural disaster occurs, ordinary services and infrastructure are likely to be disrupted. As a result, unhealthy conditions can develop. It’s important to be prepared so that you know what to do to protect your health.
7 Aug 2012: Keeping safe from volcanic ash
Volcanic ash can harm people and animals and destroy property, both near to the eruption and hundreds of kilometres away. Find advice on what to do before and during an eruption. Read more
Related websites
New Zealand Food Safety Authority
Councils, district health boards, civil defence groups
- Check your local and regional councils’ websites, or visit their offices.
- Also check your local district health board and civil defence group websites.
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Get Ready, Get Through. This website tells you about storing water and preparing a household emergency checklist.
Find out more from the Ministry
For the health sector, careful planning for national emergencies is critical to safe-guarding the public health care system. Find out more in Emergency management.
In this section
- Volcanic ash can harm people and animals and destroy property, both near to the eruption and hundreds of kilometres away. Find advice on what to do before and during an eruption. Read more
Resources
Protecting Your Health in an Emergency
Available on HealthEd.
Page last updated: 05 April 2013
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