Get Ready
This information has been drawn together to give you, your family and your business basic instruction about how to prepare for and what to do in a civil emergency situation.
The emergency services, your local authority, Scottish Government and the other responders are trained and equipped to deal with all kinds of emergencies – the team is ‘Ready’. If the emergency is serious and affects many people, they will be very busy and so you should be able to help yourself, and others, where you can. You may hear of the term Community Resilience being used to describe helping yourself and others to plan, prepare for or respond to an emergency – in other words
If you need urgent assistance in an emergency you should always call 999 and follow instructions. But there is a lot you can do now to prepare yourself, your family, your home or business for emergencies and disruptive events.
The Get Ready campaign provides the following links which contain some straightforward, commonsense actions that could stand you in good stead in a wide range of situations.
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Emergencies can happen at any time and they could affect any one of us. In recent years, flooding, animal disease outbreaks, and terrorist attacks have all affected Scotland and other parts of the UK.
Are you ready for anything? Find out more about some of the main risks facing Scotland, and what you can do to prepare.
Find out how you can Get Ready for all kinds of emergencies and disruptions.
Find out how Scottish Government is working with Tayside SCG to prepare for all kinds of emergencies at Ready Government.
