Business Planning for Emergencies
Emergencies and disasters can affect any business. Planning ahead can help reduce disruption and improve your business's ability to respond and recover.
Disaster resilience for business toolkit
Business Victoria's Disaster Resilience for Business Toolkit can help you to:
- identify potential risks to your business
- prepare for disruptions to lessen their impact
- figure out ways for your business to run during disruptions
- resume and get back to business as usual
Access the Disaster Resilience for Business Toolkit.
Your business's cyber security
Information, advice and training about protecting your business from cyber threats can be found at:
Cybercrimes can be reported to: Report | Cyber.gov.au.
Emergency management for farms
Agriculture Victoria has a range of emergency management resources that are relevant to farming and similar businesses: Emergency management | Farm management | Agriculture Victoria. The resources include emergency contacts, natural disaster information, and information about animal welfare and biosecurity emergencies.
The First 72 Hours
Colac Otway Shire Council has a suite of online information about keeping safe in fire, flood and severe weather: Fire & Emergencies.
There is a practical tool for The First 72 Hours, which helps the whole community, including businesses, prepare for the impacts of environmental emergencies.
Emergency contacts for Colac Otway Shire businesses
Council has emergency contact information for the community that you may want to keep handy: Emergency Contacts, Websites and Apps - Colac Otway Shire.
The following contacts are useful for some local businesses:
- Agriculture Victoria - Emergency Animal Diseases Watch Hotline: 1800 675 888. Call this number if you suspect any emergency animal disease, including sick livestock, poultry and aquatic animals
- Shark sightings - report to Police on 000 and notify on-duty lifesavers if you are at a patrolled beach