Earthquake Support Pack Checklist for People With Disabilities

Explain that earthquake protection must fit the person's actual movement, device, room, and support needs. Earthquake advice can become unsafe when it assumes every person can hear the alert, get under a table, move without help, read a phone, or leave through the same route. This page helps adapt the plan around the person. The goal is a practical protective action, named support contacts, reachable device and medicine notes, communication backups, and a clear boundary where clinicians, caregivers, device suppliers, building staff, or emergency services take over. Real locations. Practical protection.

Create a named network for caregiver check-ins, communication backups, building help, and out-of-area contact. Practice in the places where the person actually spends time: bed, wheelchair, recliner, desk, bathroom, kitchen, or classroom. The safest practical action may be protecting head and neck where they are, locking a wheelchair if that is part of their plan, using a pillow nearby, or following a caregiver-approved cue. This article does not teach transfers or carries. It asks the household to choose a repeatable action before shaking creates urgency. Caregiver list. Backup contact. Practice the safest practical protective position near the places the person spends time before shaking occurs.

Organize medicines notes, batteries, chargers, device instructions, communication cards, mobility aids, and service animal items. Write a support list that does not depend on one caregiver or one phone. Include nearby helpers, out-of-area contacts, building staff, school or workplace contacts, transportation notes, service animal information, and who checks after shaking. If the person uses sign language, communication cards, speech devices, large print, or translated notes, keep those visible. The plan should tell helpers what matters without making strangers guess during aftershocks or power loss nearby. Device notes. Communication cards. Keep device instructions, batteries, chargers, medicine lists, communication cards, and caregiver contacts in reachable locations.

Address hearing, vision, speech, cognitive, language, and phone limitations without making medical claims. Personal supplies are different from a generic kit. Keep medicine lists, clinician contacts, device model notes, chargers, batteries, hearing-aid supplies, glasses, mobility aids, hygiene items, communication cards, comfort items, and service animal supplies reachable. Ask clinicians, pharmacists, device suppliers, or caregivers about specialized needs before an event. Do not use an internet checklist as medical advice, power-backup engineering, oxygen planning, or device setup for emergencies. Put notes where helpers can find them. Alert access. Plain instructions. Write a support contact list, device needs, medicine notes, communication method, and post-shaking check plan.

Route care plans, transfers, power backup, oxygen, transport, building access, and rescue to qualified people. Transfers, lifting, evacuation assistance, oxygen, powered medical devices, medication changes, accessible transport, structural access, and rescue are professional or official questions. Use clinicians, caregivers, occupational therapists, device suppliers, building officials, utilities, emergency services, and local agencies for those decisions. If there is injury, trapped people, fire, gas odor, severe symptoms, blocked exits, or loss of critical equipment support, stop reading and seek emergency or qualified help immediately. Do not improvise. Clinician boundary. Emergency help. Practice the safest practical protective position near the places the person spends time before shaking occurs.