Task 3
Heat-Safe Messaging
‘Heat-health literacy is essential for reducing the health impacts of extreme heat and hot weather on human health. A co-designed and collaborative approach to heat-health messaging with communities ensures that everyone has the knowledge and tools to stay safe in the heat. This approach is crucial, as heat-health messaging needs to be tailored to different population groups and made accessible to all.’
Task
Create heat-safe messaging for a specific group in your local community.
We encourage you to be creative and to use storytelling (visual, written or spoken). You can share your project at the 50°C Climate Summit on 11 April 2025.
To complete this task you will need to consider:
1. Audience and Medium
- Think carefully about who you are designing for (for example, primary school students, your peers, locals who frequent a specific place).
- What medium will be most effective for this group of people. What local options are available to them (eg cooling centres, splash parks and so on)?
2. Message
Select a clear and evidence-based message you would like to share with this group. Make sure you cite where your evidence-based message comes from, using program materials. Messages could include:
- Ways to keep safe during extreme heat
- How to recognise heat exhaustion and heat stroke
- Preparing for extreme heat
- Making extreme heat visible so people know the risks
- A message of your choice based on the program.
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