Packaging Built for Crisis and Emergency Situations

Packaging is now being used in disaster relief efforts, and it’s become a huge role in such packaging efforts. 

You want packaging that’s fast to assemble, watertight, or even safe for drops. If you’re shipping to flooded areas, or areas that need help quickly, time’s of the essence, and if your packaging requires tools to open, you might want to rethink if you’re shipping to crisis locations. Remember, rapid response is the name of the game, so keep that in place. 

Color Coded Labels for This 

One cool thing that companies are doing is a triage design. This is where color-coded or label-specific boxes are implemented for medical and food kits. These levels will tell you how fast you have to get the item out to customers, and whether or not the medical supplies are time-sensitive, or basic first aid supplies that won’t go bad. This moves the whole system along, and it makes things much easier for disaster relief responders. For many of them, this type of response also means better, stronger packaging efforts that will in turn help to make crises easier to manage and navigate over time as well. 

Make it Durable 

Durable packaging makes this better and stronger.  Harsh transit thrives with strong packaging. 

Foods, heat, rough handling, frigid cold, even war zones and other disasters need all the support they can get.   You want to make sure that the packaging you make does survive.

Double-walled boxes are one example, and tend to be the strongest example. But, reinforcing the edges so that if they drop they won’t get messed up, coating the packaging in a waterproof coating that will help you with protecting such items, and also ensuring that your packaging can withstand drop tests through various ways  of assessment are important. 

Heat is  big one, because when it gets too hot, it will expand, so you want to make sure that not only does it have protection from the contents melting, whether you add temperature controlled or climate controlled efforts, but you also as well, make it so that the packaging doesn’t expand or explode when it gets hot. 

Real-World Cases of Using these packaging Supplies 

There’s a lot of different real-world cases for using these types of disaster packaging. 

One example is flooded areas. Buoyant packaging where it can bobble on the water, or even creating inflatable sides to keep the items afloat are one. These of course also have humidity protection from the elements and won’t make the items get worse. 

Helicopter drops are another one. These are drops from a helicopter that will get to customers in time. Of course, this works to protect the items, and you want to make the packaging easy to get to these customers so it doesn’t become a bigger issue. 

There’s also remote deliveries, where the item isn’t delivered by a human, but by an automaton and others. This is good for areas where it’s better for humans not to get involved, like disaster zones and other conflicting locations. 

There’s also conflict zones, which offer places where you have to act fast. with the possibility of gunshots and other items puncturing, you have to reinforce these items, so that not only are they protected from nature, but they’re also protected from humans as well. 

All of these come together to offer some real-world protections for these items. You never know how bad a disaster is going to be, and if you’re a company looking to send out various aid to people of all sorts, then you want to make sure that your packaging’s protected.