Emergency Contact Sheet Template (Free Printable PDF)
When someone is watching your kids, your parent, or your house, they need the important numbers on paper — somewhere they can grab without unlocking a phone or knowing a passcode. Download the free printable PDF below, or fill in the template on this page, then stick it on the fridge.
Download the Template
Download the emergency contact sheet PDF — a single-page, ready-to-print Letter-size sheet with sections for primary contacts, medical details, and household info. Print one for the sitter, one for school, one for the travel bag.
The same template is below if you would rather copy it into a document or print this page directly.
Primary Contacts
| Role | Name | Phone | Alternate phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent / Guardian 1 | |||
| Parent / Guardian 2 | |||
| Emergency contact (nearby) | |||
| Neighbor |
Medical
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Doctor / Pediatrician | |
| Doctor’s phone | |
| Hospital | |
| Insurance / policy number | |
| Allergies | |
| Medications |
Household & Services
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Home address | |
| Home phone | |
| Poison control | |
| Other (vet, school, etc.) |
In a life-threatening emergency, call your local emergency number first (911 in the US, 112 in much of Europe). This sheet is for the people and details you need after that call is made.
When You Need One
- A babysitter or nanny watching your kids for the evening or the week.
- A caregiver looking after an elderly parent or a family member with medical needs.
- School, camp, or daycare, which often require an emergency contact form on file.
- A house sitter or pet sitter who needs your numbers and the vet’s while you travel.
- Travel, tucked into a bag so the details are reachable even on a dead phone.
What to Include (and What to Skip)
A good emergency sheet is short enough to scan in seconds. Include:
- Two ways to reach you, plus one local contact who can be there fast.
- The doctor and a hospital, with phone numbers — not just names. (Note: in a real emergency, EMS routes to the nearest appropriate hospital, not necessarily your preferred one.)
- Allergies and current medications, written plainly.
- The home address spelled out — a panicked sitter may need to read it to a dispatcher.
Skip anything that does not help in the moment. A wall of every contact you own is worse than the eight that matter.
The Faster Way: Pull It From Your iPhone
The hardest part of an emergency sheet is keeping it current — numbers change, and a sheet written last year may be wrong when it counts. If the contacts already live on your iPhone, you do not have to write them out by hand.
ContactPDF reads your contacts off the device and lets you pick just the handful a sitter or caregiver needs. Its Compact layout is built for exactly this — the app lists it for “emergency sheets and rosters” — packing the key people and details onto a single readable page. Nothing leaves the phone, and there is no account, so you can print an accurate sheet in a couple of minutes whenever the numbers change.
Related Guides
- Printable phone book template — a full address book on paper.
- How to back up iPhone contacts — keep a copy you control.
- The complete iPhone contact management guide — backup, export, transfer, and print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this emergency contact sheet free to print? Yes. Download the PDF and print it as many times as you need, for home, school, or work. No sign-up.
Can I make one without typing every number? Yes. The ContactPDF app pulls the relevant contacts off your iPhone and formats them for printing, so you can hand a caregiver an accurate sheet in a couple of minutes.
What should a babysitter’s contact sheet include? Two ways to reach you, one nearby backup person, the pediatrician and a hospital, the home address, and any allergies or medications. Keep it to a single page.