No one likes to meet emergency situations. Imagine that you woke up at 7am. It sounds good until you realise that you will need to be in your job at 8am, with a traffic journey of one hour away during peak hours.

The story continues here. You continue the story.

Needless to say, emergency situation brings sudden shock to us. Besides a mental shock, we may act clumsily as body coordination deals with adrenaline rush.

How good it is if we can stop emergency from bringing embarrassment. Of course possible but with preparations.

1. Emergency kit

The emergency kit does not necessarily look like this. Depending on which emergency you are preparing, you can modify this.

If we were to prepare an "emergency kit" for our accidental late-for-job, then these items will be vital.

• Simple food (such as bread or biscuits) available for grab

• Last-night preparation (keeping all your items needed for your job in a bag)

• Location of items - These items should be placed at a place where you can easily reach the place if emergency

2. Communication tool

We are blessed with just a simple tool for communication - a smartphone. Other than that, computer can perform the task to communicate with others during emergency. They are used to contact people about the emergency you are facing.

For an accidental late-for-job, there may be no excuses; but using these devices to contact your superior helps, at least you maintain your professionality and responsibility. However, this does not imply that your superior should excuse you.

P/S: If the late-for-job scenario is common, then this is NOT an emergency anymore. You should solve this RISK before the RISK knocks you out of job.

3. Important documents

Important documents, especially personal identification documents, should be with us at all times.

Depending on your location, you may need different documents. For late-for-job scenario, your company ID card is vital.

You should place your identification documents at a place which is reachable easily at home, and if possible, place it together with your smartphones.

4. Specific supplies

You may have placed these items in your emergency kit, but some of them may be specific.

If you are currently under special medications, you might not prepare your emergency kit with this item at the moment. For specific supplies, it should be placed in your daily bag which you use frequently.

This should be in your "emergency kit" if you are referring to late-for-job emergency scenario.

5. An amount of cash

Thanks to technology advancement, we can use cashless way to solve payments. What about if there is no internet connections?

It can happen if this is a major emergency that involves a system. If this is so, cash will come in handy in solving it.

Even though if you are late for job, cash is also important to have to quicken your journey to your working destination, such as to pay a taxi driver or turning into an express lane.

There are more ways to prepare for emergency!

The late-for-job scenario is rather straight forward. Let's discuss about other emergency scenarios.

• What about if this emergency is life-threatening?

• Is risk similar to that of emergency?

• Can we benefit from emergency?

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