Disclaimer

In an emergency in Australia, call 000. Do not use this website to decide what to do while an emergency is happening — follow the instructions of emergency services and your state or territory agency.

General information only

Everything published on The Survival Guru is general information. It is written for a broad Australian audience, without knowledge of your circumstances, your health, your location, your property, your finances, your legal position or your level of training.

Nothing on this site is professional advice, and reading it does not create any professional relationship between you and The Survival Guru or its authors. In particular, our content is not:

• medical, first aid, paramedical, nursing, mental health or veterinary advice
• legal advice
• financial, tax, insurance, credit or investment advice
• engineering, building, electrical, plumbing, gas or other licensed trade advice
• occupational health and safety, or employment or workplace advice
• advice about whether to stay, leave, shelter or evacuate during any specific incident

Our content is not professionally reviewed

We research our articles from published sources, including Australian guidelines and government and emergency service material, and we cite those sources so you can read them yourself.

However, our articles are not written, reviewed, verified or endorsed by a registered medical practitioner, nurse, paramedic, first aid instructor, lawyer, financial adviser, licensed tradesperson, engineer or any other qualified professional, and they are not reviewed by any emergency service or government agency. No professional or agency has checked this content for accuracy, completeness or currency, and any reference to a source does not imply that the source endorses us or what we have written.

Where a topic is covered by an official guideline — for example resuscitation and first aid guidance from ANZCOR, or warnings and advice from your state fire, emergency or health agency — the official source prevails over anything on this site. If our content and an official source disagree, follow the official source.

Get properly trained and properly advised

Reading about a skill is not the same as being able to perform it. For anything with real consequences, we strongly encourage you to:

• complete accredited first aid and CPR training with a recognised provider
• see a doctor or other appropriate health professional about your own health, medication, injuries and symptoms
• use a licensed tradesperson for electrical, gas, plumbing, structural and generator work
• obtain your own legal, financial, tax and insurance advice before acting on anything you read here
• register for, and follow, official warnings for your area

Your decisions and risk

Survival, preparedness and emergency activities can be dangerous. If you choose to act on anything you read on this site, you do so at your own risk, and you are responsible for assessing whether it is safe, lawful, suitable and appropriate for your situation, your abilities and the people in your care. You are also responsible for complying with all applicable laws, regulations, licence conditions, permits, tenancy or body corporate rules, and local council requirements.

Currency and accuracy

We aim to keep our content accurate and up to date, but guidelines, laws, product availability, prices, agency names, phone numbers and web addresses change. Content may be out of date by the time you read it, and we make no promise that any article reflects the current state of any guideline or law. Articles are dated, and show when they were last updated.

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Any mention of a product, brand, service, organisation or supplier is for information only and is not a recommendation, endorsement or guarantee of suitability, safety or performance. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or availability of any third-party website we link to, and a link is not an endorsement of that site or its operators.

Where we ever receive payment, commission or other benefit in connection with content — for example affiliate links or sponsored articles — we will disclose that clearly on the relevant page.

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To the maximum extent permitted by law, The Survival Guru provides this website and its content “as is” and “as available”, and makes no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, currency, fitness for a particular purpose or safety of anything published on it.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for any loss, damage, injury, illness, death, cost or expense — however caused, including by our negligence — arising out of or in connection with your use of, or reliance on, this website or its content, or any website we link to.

Nothing in this disclaimer excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where our liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our liability is limited, at our option, to supplying the relevant content again or paying the cost of having it supplied again.

About this site

The Survival Guru is an independent Australian publication. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by any government department, emergency service, health service or standards body.

Questions and corrections

If you believe something on this site is wrong, unsafe or out of date, please tell us — we want to fix it. Use our contact form and include the article and what you think is wrong.

We may update this disclaimer at any time, and the version published here is the current one. This disclaimer forms part of our Terms of Use.