Emergency management publications

This document is designed to help those involved in planning, coordinating and delivering psychosocial interventions and mental health treatments in an emergency. It is for all agencies, service providers and community groups involved in planning, coordinating and delivering psychosocial support.

The National Health Emergency Plan provides the health and disability sector’s strategic framework for emergency management and describes roles and responsibilities across the ‘4R’s of risk reduction, readiness, response and recovery.

These guidelines help to minimise the public health risk from major fires. The focus is on industrial fires, but some of the content is also relevant to large scrub or forest fires.

This document describes policy for the management and use of national reserve supplies, and details the principal responsibilities of the Ministry and district health boards in managing and using these significant national resources.