Emergency / Household Info Binder

One printable binder for everything that matters in an emergency

An emergency or household information binder is the single place a partner, grown-up child, carer or house-sitter can turn to when they need answers fast and you are not there to give them. This free generator builds that binder for you: tick the sheets you need and download a clean, labelled PDF where each section prints on its own page, ready to slot behind a divider tab. Choose from Emergency Contacts, Medical Information, Household & Utilities, Insurance & Finance, Important Documents and Pet Care.

Print it once, fill it in with a pen, and keep it somewhere the whole household knows about — a kitchen drawer, a fire-proof box, or a binder by the front door. When something goes wrong, nobody has to guess where the stop-cock is, which surgery to phone, or where the will is kept.

Prints cleanly in A4 or US Letter.

What's on each sheet

Emergency Contacts

The number to call first, a primary and secondary contact with their relationship and phone, an out-of-town contact, and a small table for extra names, relationships and notes. This is the sheet to keep at the very front.

Medical Information

Name and date of birth, blood type, allergies, conditions, your GP and pharmacy, an insurance or policy number, and a medication table with dose, times per day and what each medicine is for — exactly what a paramedic or relief carer needs.

Household & Utilities

Where the water, gas and electrical shut-offs are, the Wi-Fi name and password, the alarm code and key-holder, plus a table of utility and service providers with account numbers and phone lines.

Insurance & Finance

Bank, financial adviser, solicitor, where the will and power of attorney live, and a policy table covering type, provider, policy number and renewal date.

Important Documents

Where the safe or lockbox is and who holds the code, any safety-deposit box, and a long table to log each document, its location and whether a copy exists.

Pet Care

Vet and emergency vet, microchip number, feeding routine and any medication, plus a small table listing each pet — so a sitter or neighbour can step in without a single phone call.

Why keep a physical emergency binder?

• It works when phones are dead, locked or out of signal — paper never needs a password.
• Anyone in the house can find it, not just the person whose phone holds the apps.
• Paramedics, relief carers and house-sitters can read it in seconds.
• It gathers details that are normally scattered across emails, drawers and memory.
• Filling it in once a year is a natural prompt to check policies and contacts are still current.

What you can customise

• Household name printed on every sheet header (optional)
• Which sheets to include — pick any combination of the six sections
• A "store securely" privacy note at the foot of each sheet, on or off
• Paper size: A4 or US Letter PDF

Privacy — your details never leave your device

This is a printable worksheet, not a fillable form, and it is generated entirely in your browser. You hand-write the sensitive details, so nothing you would put on these sheets — medical conditions, account numbers, passwords, the location of your will — is ever typed into the tool, sent over the internet or stored on our servers. Once printed and filled in, treat the binder like any other sensitive paperwork: keep it somewhere secure and shred old versions when you update it.

How to use the tool

1. Type your household name, or leave it blank.
2. Tick the sheets you want in the binder.
3. Decide whether to print the "store securely" note.
4. Choose A4 or US Letter, preview the pages and download the PDF.
5. Print at 100% scale, fill it in by hand, and file it somewhere safe.

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