Family protection
Third module for the app. The master plan covered supplies, the remedies file covered medicine. This one covers judgement — the decisions, habits, and scenario playbooks that actually keep a family alive. One truth frames all of it: the things statistically most likely to kill your family are car crashes, house fires, falls, drowning, carbon monoxide, and untreated health problems — not raiders. Protect against the boring things first; the dramatic things are mostly covered by the same habits.
- MindsetStay calm, assess, prioritise, act. Panic kills more people than the disaster does.
- Everyday threatsThe real risks are house fires, carbon monoxide, falls and car crashes, not raiders.
- Home defenceFour layers: stay invisible, deter, delay, then detect and respond. De-escalation beats any fight.
- Tripwires and stay-or-goDecide your triggers to leave in writing now, before the moment you would talk yourself out of it.
- Family-specificAge-appropriate jobs for kids, a mobility plan for elderly relatives, a month of food for pets.
- Financial and legal resilienceThree to six months of expenses saved, debts cleared, and your will actually written.
- Digital and information self-defenceA family code word defeats voice-clone scam calls. Verify alarming news before acting on it.
- CommunityFamilies survive as streets, not bunkers. Know your eight nearest neighbours and their skills.
- The knowledge vaultBack up the whole plan on paper, then teach it. Redundancy in people matters as much as gear.
- 12-month skills ladderA quarter-by-quarter drill plan for the year, then an hour a week of upkeep for good.