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EmergencyRedi Workshop Near Springfield Central To Focus On Preparedness

Photo Credit: Australian Red Cross

Springfield Central residents are being encouraged to join a free Australian Red Cross EmergencyRedi™ Workshop at the Camira Springfield Community Centre to learn how to prepare for emergencies.

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Preparing Springfield Central For Emergencies

The Australian Red Cross, in partnership with NRMA Insurance, will deliver an EmergencyRedi™ Workshop at the Camira Springfield Community Centre on Tuesday, 7 October 2025. Running from 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., the session is free to attend but limited to 25 participants. It is designed to help households understand their risks and take practical steps to become better prepared for extreme weather and other emergencies.

Australian Red Cross
Photo Credit: Australian Red Cross

Four Steps To Get Ready

The workshop will guide attendees through the RediPlan®, a structured approach to household preparedness. Participants will be introduced to four steps: understanding risks in their area, connecting with their community for mutual support, organising a clear emergency plan, and packing items that are essential during and after a crisis. These steps are intended to provide both practical tools and psychological reassurance when facing unexpected events.

Part Of A National Program

EmergencyRedi workshops are part of a broader Australian Red Cross program that supports individuals and households to build resilience. They are tailored to the local context, interactive, and designed to be flexible, with a focus on simple actions that can make a difference when disaster strikes. Using the RediPlan® as a foundation, the workshops enable participants to begin creating their own household plan during the session.

EmergencyRedi workshop
Photo Credit: Australian Red Cross

Linked To EmergencyRedi Week 2025

This Springfield workshop follows EmergencyRedi Week 2025, which ran from 15 to 21 September as a national call to action on preparedness. Throughout that week, communities across Australia took part in events and activities encouraging people to make emergency planning part of daily life. The campaign highlighted the increasing frequency of natural hazards and the need for proactive preparation.

Australian Red Cross
Photo Credit: Australian Red Cross

Community Support

After the workshop, attendees will be invited to take part in a free food giveaway provided by Westside Community Care. This additional activity is aimed at bringing the community together and supporting participation in the event.

Booking Details

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Community members are encouraged to secure a place early as capacity is limited. By joining the workshop, Springfield Central residents will gain knowledge, tools, and confidence to prepare for emergencies and protect the people and things most important to them.

Published 1-Oct-2025

Don’t Be A Fool, Save A Life: Be Part Of The April Pools Day Campaign In Springfield Lakes

Recent research done by Poolwerx showed a spike in the number of drownings in Australia. CEO and Founder of the largest pool and spa maintenance network in the country, John O’Brien conducted a research and found that 75% of people don’t know how to do proper CPR to save a life. This prompted Mr O’Brien to launch the April Pools Day campaign.

Save A Life, Refresh Your CPR Skills

On 3 April, Poolwerx in Springfield Lakes will provide a free online CPR course. This will help refresh the community’s knowledge of CPR. The facility is located at Shop 6A, Springfield Lake Metro Shopping Centre.

One of the best ways to practice CPR is on a specially-designed dummy. To kickstart this year’s campaign, a free online course is also available here from Kids Alive. There are two videos:

How to perform CPR on an adult
How to perform CPR on babies and small children

Each video has a step-by-step guide on the proper administration of CPR.

The Australian Red Cross will also provide 2,000 free online introductory CPR courses for the month of April. All you have to do is visit a Poolwerx store from 3 April to get the special redemption card and codeword.

The campaign promotes the importance of CPR and to encourage people to learn it. Drowning is the greatest cause of accidental death in Australia in children under five years old.

This safety initiative has acquired the support of the Australian Red Cross and Laurie Lawrence of Kids Alive.

The Kids Alive Program

Kids Alive was established in 1988 by Mr Lawrence to combat drowning in the nation. As part of their support to the newly-launched safety campaign, they have teamed up with Poolwerx through the “Kids Alive – Do the Five” message to people all over Australia.

The Do The Five program covers:

Fence the pool
Shut the gate
Learn to swim
Supervise
Learn to resuscitate

They will be prioritising homes where water safety is critical.

Recent Drowning In Ipswich

Earlier this year, Aliyana Caplin died after drowning in a backyard swimming pool. The two-year-old was seen unconscious in their family pool at Raceview and was rushed to the Lady Cilento Hospital. Unfortunately, the toddler didn’t make it.

Save Our Schoolkids Campaign

Queensland is also the only state in Australia that does not have a comprehensive State Government-funded swimming program in primary schools. An S.O.S. campaign named “Save Our Schoolkids” was launched in January this year by Queensland publications with the support of the Australian Water Safety Council, Royal Life Saving Society Australia, and leading Olympians.

The campaign is to urge the government to implement compulsory swim and water safety lessons in Queensland primary schools.

You can also take CPR refresher courses here.