Crisis Preparedness

One of the goals of the Rescue Board is to help the people of Estonia prepare for various emergencies and crises, including natural disasters, power outages, and military threats.

You can find behavioural guidelines and practical advice on how to better prepare for crises on the website www.olevalmis.ee. On this website, you will also find information about the development and legislation in the field of civil protection.

Civil protection during a crisis means the preparedness of the state and society for:

• first aid and disaster medicine
• evacuation
• other essential assistance for residents
• public warning and emergency notifications
• psychosocial crisis support
• rescue operations
• sheltering
• indispensable social assistance

The foundation of civil protection is the ability of individuals to protect themselves during a crisis until help arrives, and, if necessary, to help each other. Achieving this is a joint effort in which individuals, communities, volunteers, local governments, and state institutions all play an important role.

Estonia develops societal protection measures to safeguard the population, together with related risk communication and training activities. This includes strengthening institutional capacity.

To support community-level crisis preparedness, a community crisis plan questionnaire has been developed.