— A FREE COMPANION TO THE THREAT-ASSESSMENT PRIMER

The household walkaround worksheet.

A printable PDF you carry around the property with a torch and a pen. It operationalises the five-question threat assessment from our primer as a worksheet you fill in: prompts, fill-in space, scale-by-scale scope notes inline, and a findings-priority matrix at the back.

— WHAT'S INSIDE

The five questions, structured to walk and write.

The worksheet covers the same five questions the primer goes through in long form, but as a fill-in form rather than an essay — designed for a quarterly walkaround at dusk, the cadence that keeps a household's assessment accurate over years.

  • Question 1 — what are the realistic threats? The five threat categories, weighted to your specific circumstances. SAPS station-level figures as the public reference.
  • Question 2 — what's actually attractive about your property? The seven things your property signals to a stranger in their first ninety seconds, plus the household's online footprint.
  • Question 3 — what are your honest vulnerabilities? Physical access points, sight lines, predictable routines, information leakage, response capacity — the gap between what you've planned for and what would actually happen.
  • Question 4 — what are your existing strengths? What's already working, including the PSiRA verification of your nominated response company.
  • Question 5 — what would your first sixty seconds actually look like? The where, the what, the who-you-call, the converge-here — written down from memory, then compared across the household.

Plus a three-column findings sort (fix this week / fix this quarter / live with it), scale-by-scale scope notes inline (townhouse / suburban / rural), and a closing imperative.

— WHAT THIS ISN'T

Not a guard-service quote. Not security theatre.

We don't recommend cameras at photogenic angles. We don't pitch alarm-system stickers without alarms behind them. We don't promise that the worksheet replaces a professional assessment if your circumstances warrant one. What the worksheet does is something a household can only do themselves: an honest stocktake of their own property, their own routines, and their own first-sixty-seconds plan. A walkaround that you do yourself, by hand, at the right cadence, produces more genuine resilience than the equipment shopping that usually substitutes for it.

— DOWNLOAD

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You'll get a confirmation link first (one click, takes ten seconds). After you confirm, the welcome email arrives with the download link. You'll also be subscribed to The Weekly Despatch — one short editorial letter a week from the publication.

— THE PUBLICATION

Where this worksheet comes from.

Survival & Prepping is a serious editorial publication on self-reliance, security, off-grid living, homesteading at any scale, and food security. Calm, evidence-led, scoped to the South African household, anti-fearmongering. The threat-assessment primer is one of our four cornerstones; this worksheet is its companion artifact. Read more about the publication or browse the primer itself.