Fact Sheets - Essential Service Disruption

Essential Service Disruption

Food safety

Look at the Public Health website (external link) under Food Safety for the fact sheets:

• Emergency Power Failure Food Storage Checklist
• Food Safety and Emergency Power Failure
• Emergency Catering - Food Handlers Checklist
• Emergency Catering Supervisors Checklist

Hygiene

• Personal Hygiene During an Emergency (pdf 23kb)
• Sponge Bath for People Confined to Bed (pdf 23kb)
• Continence Management (pdf 23kb)
• First-aid advice for burns is available from St John Ambulance (external link)

Hot Weather

Look at the Public Health website (external link) under bushfire for the factsheet:

• Preventing heat related illness

The following fact sheet is also available:

• First Aid for Heat Stress (pdf 261kb)

Cold Weather

• How to Keep Warm Safely (pdf 85kb)

Fact sheets are also available on the Better Health Channel www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au