Risk and resilience resources
Published: 25 November 2022Last Updated: 20 May 2025
View resources to help you understand, prepare and plan for severe weather, flooding, fires, power cuts and other emergencies.
Individuals
- Individual preparedness guide (PDF 289KB)
- Emergency household plan template (PDF 406KB)
- Emergency household plan template (DOCX 329KB)
- How to be more resilient in 30 simple ways (PDF 212KB)
- Children's activity booklet - let's get ready for an emergency (PDF 2.85MB)
- Age Scotland booklet on building resilience (PDF 1.1MB)
- Are you Ready for Winter Advice Leaflet (PDF 1.85MB)
- Winter driving advice (PDF 1.8MB)
- Winter driving advice - accessible version (PDF 288KB)
- Winter defence: guide to home safety and storm preparedness (PDF 323KB)
Communities
Resilience framework and planning:
- Aberdeenshire Community Resilience Framework (PDF 6.77MB)
- Community Resilience plan and advice note (PDF 313KB)
- Community Resilience plan template (DOCX 343KB)
Operations:
- Setting up a resilience group advice note (PDF 234KB)
- Ideas for resilience activities (PDF 249KB)
- How to set up a community hub (PDF 1.2MB)
- Understanding the role of different support centres advice note (PDF 265KB)
- Volunteer preparedness for emergency response advice note (PDF 244KB)
- Ready Scotland: Help your community prepare for challenges
Supporting advice:
- Funding advice note (PDF 645KB)
- Supporting vulnerable people in the community (PDF 622KB)
- Understanding the role of Councillors in an emergency - advice note (PDF 227KB)
- Telecoms resilience information (PDF 365KB)
- Generators advice note (PDF 260KB)
Flooding:
- Flooding roles and responsibilities (PDF 132KB)
- Scottish Flood Forum: what we can do for you as a community