Heat safety
Resources to help promote heat safe behaviours.
Heat safety for consumers
In Australia, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths than other natural disasters.
Find consumer-focused fact sheets and information about heat safety on the Queensland Government Health and Wellbeing website's hot weather health and safety page.
Posters, translated into 13 languages, are available on the Heat-related illness fact sheets page.
BlueCare has developed heat preparedness tips for older Queenslanders in Heat happens. Stay cool.
Heatwave warnings
Learn about heatwave warnings at the Bureau of Meteorology’s heatwave knowledge centre.
The Queensland Health newsroom has information about heatwave warnings and heat health messaging.
Heatwave preparation
Developed in collaboration with Get Ready Queensland, this heatwave preparation checklist outlines priority activities for community members to mitigate heatwave risk. Download the Heatwave preparation checklist (PDF, 167KB).
Health and disaster management guidance
Stakeholder guides
Stakeholder guides are available for those who work in the health or disaster management sectors. The guides are regularly updated on heat health research and tools. To get a copy of the guides, contact the Disaster Management Branch.
Communications toolkit
The Extreme Heat and Heatwaves Communications Toolkit is available for stakeholders and includes social media tiles that can be used to reach community members with heat health information.
If you work in the health sector or disaster management sector, and don’t have access to the Extreme Heat and Heatwaves Communications Toolkit or the Heat Health Stakeholder Guide, contact the Disaster Management Branch.
Primary care guide
To further promote heat health management, Queensland Health has developed a primary care guide to heat health management for GPs and other primary healthcare providers. This guide outlines key preparedness actions to support patients, staff and facilities during extreme heat conditions. Read the Heat Health Management guide (PDF, 2.3KB).
HEDAT
Griffith University has developed the Hybrid Environmental Design Audit Tool (HEDAT) to identify variations in heat in specific areas (for example, across a residential aged care home). This tool was developed through a pilot with an aged care facility to support the identification of design features that promote cooler spaces. The tool is designed to help facility managers, in conjunction with landscape architects, urban designers and architects, to design more comfortable and climate resilient spaces for vulnerable Queenslanders. For more information, contact the Disaster Management Branch.