Family Preparedness Audit + Plan Template · 2 PDFs, 34 pages · $15 CAD

Score the house you have before a storm scores it for you.

Seventy-five questions scored 0–3 across ten domains, with a total out of 225 and a band you can compare year over year. Then the second PDF turns the score into a written plan: owners, dates and a signed review page. The audit tells you where you are weak before it tells you what to buy.

What it is

Two PDFs that are meant to be printed and written on. The 20-page audit scores your household and hands you a work order. The 14-page plan template is the companion that turns those scores into a document the family can find in the dark.

Every question is numeric and verifiable — “Do you store ≥ 4 L per person per day for ≥ 7 days?” rather than “are you prepared?” — and each one carries a one-line note on what a good answer looks like.

The ten domains, and what each is worth

Domain	Questions	Maximum points
1 · Heat	8	24
2 · Water	8	24
3 · Food & Cooking	8	24
4 · Sanitation	7	21
5 · Power & Fuel	8	24
6 · Medical & Medication Continuity	7	21
7 · Communications	7	21
8 · Security & Light Discipline	7	21
9 · Documents & Money	7	21
10 · Skills & Drills	8	24
Total	75	225

The scale is a capability ladder, not a feeling

Score	What it means
0 · Absent	No capacity at all.
1 · Improvised	Partly works, untested, unknown capacity, or it exists only in your head.
2 · Stocked	The capacity physically exists, correctly sized and stored, but has not been used under pressure.
3 · Stocked and drilled	The capacity exists and was exercised in the last 12 months, with a logged date and a measured result.

The 3 tier requires a drill. That is the deliberate difference between a household that owns equipment and a household that can use it.

Your Preparedness Index is points earned divided by 225, as a percentage. The bands are plain: 0–25 critical, 26–50 fragile, 51–75 functional, 76–100 resilient. Each domain gets the same treatment against its own maximum, so you can see the shape of the problem and not just the total.

Five answers that override the score

A score of 0 on any of these is a this-week action, however good the Index looks:

• Freeze protection for your water system
• Seven days of stored water
• Two correctly placed carbon monoxide alarms
• A legal generator connection
• Fourteen days of every routine prescription

Then it becomes a written plan

The audit ends with a 90-day improvement plan in three 30-day blocks, a 30-day quick fix for a critical score, a 12-week progress tracker, three budget tiers in CAD ($250 core, $462 complete, $750, $2,500) and a “what not to buy first” table. The plan template is the second PDF, and it is where the work actually lives:

• Household roster, and a “who needs what” table that scales every stored quantity to a named person, with the quantity, the days and where it is kept
• Property profile, ranked risks, fuel and supply accounts, water and septic specifics
• The winter room and the heat-loss clock, with a cold-weather decision rule
• Emergency numbers, a written contact tree — who calls whom — and where everyone will be
• Medication continuity form with a cold-chain log, and the devices that need power
• Go/no-go evacuation page with 10 triggers, what leaves with you, vehicle and route readiness, and what to do if you are ordered to evacuate
• Drill log and drill menu, skills currency, and bleeding control in brief
• Supplies inventory — water, food, fuel and power, sanitation — with expiry and rotation columns
• Version control and an annual checklist, signed and dated, and re-dated every 90 days

The template’s own first instruction is the honest one: date everything, because a plan without dates is a rumour. Its second is to treat every blank as an action item.

Canadian references throughout

Reference	Where it lands in the audit
Alert Ready	Canada’s national wireless public-alerting system: civil and Environment Canada alerts reach compatible phones with no app and no subscription. The audit treats it as the official Ontario channel, and notes it still needs a working carrier network — which is why the battery radio stays in the plan.
211 Ontario	Community services and reception-centre information, alongside 511 for provincial highway conditions and 811 for health advice — all three named with the caveat that none of them works when the network is down.
TSSA and CSA B149.1	Propane appliance siting, cylinder storage and transport are regulated by the TSSA under CSA B149.1.
CSA B365 and WETT	Solid-fuel appliances and chimneys are installed to CSA B365, and many insurers require a WETT-certified chimney inspection before they will cover wood heat at all.
CSA B415.1	Wood-stove certification — the Canadian standard, not the US EPA label.
Free naloxone	A take-home naloxone kit is free in Ontario from participating pharmacies and public-health units, and the audit says so plainly.
Bleeding control	A short, explicit summary: press hard on the wound for 10 minutes without lifting the dressing, pack a deep wound, place a commercial tourniquet 5 – 8 cm above the wound and never over a joint, write the time on it and do not loosen it.
The pharmacist carve-out	An Ontario pharmacist can extend or renew an existing prescription and provide an emergency supply when the prescriber cannot be reached — commonly up to 30 days — but that authority excludes narcotics and controlled substances, and the prescriber must be notified. If a medication is a controlled substance, the audit says the plan changes and you need your prescriber in the loop before winter.

What a question actually asks

Domain 5, Power & Fuel, question 4:

What it does not cover

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