What Act provides the legislative basis to manage emergencies in Tas?
Emergency Management Act (2006)
Updated 2020
What approach are all emergency arrangements underpinned by?
All hazards, all agencies approach
What document is the principle document to guide EM arrangements in Tas?
TEMA - Tasmanian Emergency Management Arrangements
What does the TEMA outline?
Provisions for mitigation, response, recovery.
Major agency roles and responsibilities.
What guides the national approach to EM?
Australian Emergency Management Arrangements (AEMA) - consistent approach to EM across Australia.
What are the 4 phases of EM?
- Prevention (mitigation)
- Preparedness
- Response
- Recovery
Not necessarily sequential.
What are some documents / guides for disaster resilience?
- National Strategy for Disaster Resilience
- National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy
- Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Framework
- Tasmanian Disaster Resilience Strategy
Which documents are used for disaster risk assessment / management?
- National Emergency Risk Assessment Guidelines (NERAG)
- Tasmanian Emergency Risk Assessment Guideline (TERAG)
- Tasmanian Disaster Risk Assessment (TASDRA)
What is the broad EM roles in TEMA?
State > Regional > Municipal / Recovery
Divisions 1-3
What are the 3Ts of Emergency Warnings?
Timely, targeted, tailored
What are some hazard-specific information systems / agencies?
- Aus Fire Danger Rating System
- Aus Tsunami Warning System
- Australian Warning System
- Heatwave Service for Australia
- National Terrorism Threat Advisory System
Which agencies provide warnings for which hazards?
BOM - rain, storms, floods, heatwaves, space weather
CCTC - terrorism
NRE - biosecurity, dam safety, fires
SES - floods, storms
TFS - fires
CCTC - Centre for Counter-Terrorism Coordination (federal)
What is a hazard?
An agent (chemical, biological, physical) with the potential to cause harm / poses a risk to human health.
What are some public information channels?
- 000
- National security hotline - terrorism
- Fire - danger rating signs and rating maps (TFS)
- Rain / flood - river height guages (variious authorities), rainfall/river data (BOM)
- Warning systems - Tasmanian Warnings (BOM), Community Alert (TasPol), TasALERT (whole government), Emergency Alert
- Media briefing / release
- Radio, TV, print, SM
- Recovery - TasRECOVERY - FB page (DPAC)
- Tas Emergency Information Service (whole of gov)
- National Emergency Call Centre
- Physical places - evacuation centre, recovery centre, public meeting
Who are the stakeholders in EM broadly?
Government - all levels
Non-government - communities, private sector
Who are the key non-government stakeholders?
CCPRRING
- Community - individuals/families, businesses/owners/operators, schools, community orgs
- Clinicians - DoH, GP, ED
- Peak bodies
- Regulators
- Research - scientisits / research orgs
- Industry - businesses, building/construction, critical infrastructure and service, insurance,
- NGOs
What is lesson’s management?
Overarching term for the collection, analysis, dissemination and application of learning experiences from previous events, exercises, programs and reviews.
Focuses on systems level rather than individual performance.
What are the broad types of critical infrastructure?
- Power
- Water
- Telecommunications
What are some national bodies that may be responsible for EM in Tas?
- NEMMM - National EM Ministers Meeting
- ANZEMC - ANZ EM Committee - peak consultative EM forum; advice and direction on coordination and progress of national EM issues; S/T reps and rep from Aus local government association
- NEMA - National Emergency Management Agency - manages Aus Gov disaster response plan (COMDISPLAN)
- **ANZCTC **- ANZ Counter-terrorism Committee
- ADF
What is the National Coordination Mechanism?
Brings together agencies of Cwth and S/T governments, plus private sector / industry to coordinate, communicate, collaborate during crisis response.
What is the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC)?
- Operational arm of Cwth DH
- Coordinates and deploys AUSMATs - Australian Medical Assistance Teams
What is the National Biosecurity Response Team (NBRT)?
- Experts from various disciplines convened and deployed to assist a jurisdiction to respond to plant / animal biosecurity incidents.
For which EM events in Tas is the DH the lead response agency?
- Food contamination
- Heatwave
- Public / environmental health incident
For which EM events in Tas DH a support agency?
Radiological materials incident (TFS lead)
