Brief your household helper

Prepare

• Provide medical care or health insurance for your helper, as UAE law requires.^u.ae
• Let your helper keep their own passport and ID, as the law requires.^u.ae
• Add your helper to your family emergency plan; plan forms include caregivers.^FEMA
• Write a contact card with names, home address, phone numbers and key local numbers.^{Red Cross}
• Post the list of important numbers somewhere easy to see.^{Red Cross}
• Walk through the home's safe exits and outside meeting place together.^Canada
• Show where the fire extinguisher, water valve and electrical panel are, and how they work.^Canada
• Tell the school who may collect the children if you cannot.^Canada

Use and maintain

• In a fire, leave at once and do not stop for belongings.^u.ae
• Do not use the lift, and close doors behind you if you can.^u.ae
• If smoke blocks the way, stay low under it or use the second exit.^{Red Cross}
• If trapped, close the door, block the gap with a wet towel, call and signal from a window.^{Red Cross}
• Once outside, go to the meeting place, then call for help. Stay out.^{Red Cross}
• For a medical emergency, call 998 for an ambulance.^u.ae
• Keep emergency calls short and give only the vital facts.^Canada
• Tell the listed emergency contacts, and share medical details with first responders.^{Abu Dhabi Department o}

Emergency card for your helper

Fill it in and keep it by the phone or on the fridge.

• Full home address
• Police 999, Ambulance 998, Civil Defence 997
• Electricity failure 991
• Parents' mobile and work numbers
• Backup contacts if parents cannot be reached
• Each child's name, date of birth, medical conditions and allergies
• School or nursery contact details
• Doctor and hospital
• Outside meeting place
• Where the extinguisher, water valve and electrical panel are

Review and restock

• Do not re-enter the home until police or Civil Defence say it is safe.^u.ae
• Cool a burn under cold running water for at least 20 minutes, then get medical care.^{British Red Cross}
• Keep children with a trusted adult and reassure them that the disruption will pass.^CDC
• If your helper is hurt while working, remember employers must pay work injury compensation.^u.ae