Product review
April 2022
April 2022
Prepare.co.nz
1 person 72 hour survival kit
Price
$215
Score
78
Recommended
Price
$215
Score
78
Recommended
Why is this free?
This report is free thanks to funding from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and Toka Tū Ake EQC.
A comprehensive kit of very good quality with excellent first aid and food rations, and a reasonable torch and radio. It's the only premade kit to include a spare set of batteries for torch and radio. You'll need to add most toiletries yourself. The kit includes a clear and comprehensive checklist of items to add but you wouldn't fit everything on the list in the bag supplied. The kit includes a clear list of items in the kit and how to use them, as well as an emergency planner, contacts list and list of tasks to do before you evacuate.
Test results
- 78Comprehensiveness
- 77Quality overall
- 81Quality essential items
Good points
- Good quality kit.
- Good backpack with multiple compartments, reflective piping, bungy compression strap and double zips that slide well.
- Battery powered torch (better than wind-up models).
- Battery powered radio.
- Full set of spare batteries included.
- Comprehensive first aid kit of excellent quality.
- Excellent food rations with a long shelf life.
- Kit includes other useful items - multi-tool and light sticks.
- Extra foil blanket included.
- Excellent checklist of items to add.
- Includes kit list with instructions for use.
- Includes emergency planner with emergency contacts list to complete.
Bad points
- Batteries supplied are carbon zinc, which are not as good as alkaline or lithium and have a shorter shelf life.
Model
- Average price
$215
- Bag volume
25L
Essential items scores
- Bag
70
- Torch
60
- Radio
65
- First aid
100
- Food rations
100
- Checklist of items to add
90
NEMA or Consumer NZ recommended
- Torch
- Radio
- First aid kit
- Food rations
- Checklist of items to add
- Torch and radio's batteries included
- Extra set of batteries
- Rain poncho
- Water container
- Water purification
- Foil blanket or bag
- Whistle
- Pen or marker
- Notebook or paper
- Masks
- Hand sanitiser
- Wet wipes
- Tissues
- Soap
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Thick plastic bags
- Ear plugs
- Work gloves
- Pain killers
N/A
- Kit list
- Emergency planner
Other useful supplies
- Multi-tool
- Light sticks
- Rope or cord
- Tampons
- Latex gloves
- Hi visibility vest
More info
- Notes
This kit also includes playing cards, matches and a candle. We don't recommend flame-based products for safety reasons.
- Availability
Available from prepare.co.nz/.
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