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| Formal Relationship Protocol - Office of Emergency Services Commissioner and Life Saving Victoria |
Relationship protocol between OESC and Life Saving Victoria |
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| 2009 Australian Safer Communities Awards |
Nominations are currently being sought for the 2009 Australian Safer Communities Awards that recognise best practice and innovation by organisations and individuals who help build safer communities across Australia. |
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| Memorandum of Understanding - ABC Victoria and Victorian Emergency Services Organisations |
This document details the memorandum of understanding between ABC Victoria and Victorian emergency services organisations. |
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| Commissioner's Submission to 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission |
To download a copy of the Emergency Services Commissioner's submission to the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, click on the link below. |
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| Community Alerting for Bushfire - A Local Solution for a Local Need |
The Ferny Creek Fire Alert Siren is an end product of a collaborative community, local government and emergency service working group process to establish an alerting system which would enhance the bushfire preparedness, planning and survival activities of a specific community in Ferny Creek. The project was initially set up as a response to a community request for ‘early warning’ as a result of the bushfires in Ferny Creek in the Dandenong Ranges in 1997. |
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| Community Information and Warning System (CIWS) |
The Community Information and Warning System Trial and Evaluation report describes the importance of public warnings to community safety and defines the types of emergency events which may necessitate a Community Information Warning System.
The report provides an overview of the key technological and social components of the system and a concept map description.
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| Coode Island Community Warning and Information System |
A report by the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner on the evaluation of the trial of automated telephone message technology as part of the Coode Island Community Warning system. |
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| EM Info: Current Issue |
EM Info is Victoria's emergency management magazine, providing a broad coverage of emergency management stories and information to the Victorian emergency management community. |
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| EM Info Archive: 2001-2002 |
Archive of 2001-2002 issues of the EM Info newsletter. |
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| EM Info Archive: 2003-2004 |
Archive of 2003-2004 issues of the EM Info newsletter. |
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| EM Info Archive: 2005-2007 |
Archive of 2005-2007 issues of the EM Info newsletter. |
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| EM Info Archive - 2008 |
Archive of 2008 EM Info magazines. |
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| Emergency Management Conference 2009 "The Future: Impacts and Opportunities" |
The Emergency Management 2009 Conference "The Future: Impacts & Opportunities" is being held at The Sebel Albert Park, Melbourne, from 20-22 July 2009.
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| Emergency Management Manual Victoria |
The manual contains policy and planning documents and provides information on the roles played by different organisations in emergency management. |
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| Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference Registration Form |
The Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference 2009 "Engaging in Emergencies" will be held from 24-26 May 2009, at the RACV Club, Melbourne. The conference will focus on the importance of best practice crisis communications.
A registration form can be downloaded below.
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| Memorandum of Understanding - Essential Services Commission and Emergency Services Commissioner |
Memorandum of Understanding between the Essential Services Commission and Emergency Services Commissioner, setting out the roles and functions of each. |
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| Examination of Prescribed Burning Practices - Wilsons Promontory |
A report by the Emergency Services Commissioner about how the management of fuel reduction burns can be improved and the risk of escapes minimised. |
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| Exercise Management Field Kit |
The Emergency Management Exercise Group has six Exercise Management Field Kits that are aimed at multi-agency training and exercise strategies and programs.
Five of the field kits are located with the Victoria Police Regional Emergency Management Inspectors around Victoria, with the sixth kit held by the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner.
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| Exercise Management Telephone Kit |
The Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner has developed an Exercise Management Telephone Kit. It is a portable tool, which is used to simulate a Control/Coordination Centre in relation to the telephone system required to support multiple agencies being represented and activated. |
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| Exercise Writing and Resources |
It is widely recognised within the Emergency Management sector that exercising the arrangements is a vital component to improve preparedness in the event of any emergency.
Victorian Government agencies conduct a range of exercises each year. The outcomes from exercises are designed around a set of focussed objectives. |
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| Fire Refuges in Victoria: Policy and Practice |
This document expresses the Victorian Government’s policy position on designated public fire refuges, and associated information. |
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| Formal Relationship Protocol - Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner and the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority |
Formal Relationship Protocol - Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner and the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority |
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| Formal Relationship Protocol - Office of the Services Commissioner and Victoria State Emergency Service |
Foraml relationship protocol OESC and VICSES |
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| Halls Gap Fire Recovery Project |
Research examining bushfire awareness and preparedness of accommodation providers and tourists in Halls Gap. |
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| Halls Gap Fire Risk Management Project |
This research examined bushfire awareness and preparedness of accommodation providers and tourists in Halls Gap. The implementation of the research is continuing through the activity of the Halls Gap Working Group. |
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| Improving Emergency Response at Melbourne Airport |
A report by the Emergency Services Commissioner on the response to an emergency incident at Melbourne Airport in 2005. |
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| Living With Risk: Ferny Creek Fire Alert Siren Evaluation Report |
The 'Ferny Creek Fire Alert Siren Evaluation Report' was initiated by the State Coroner's recommendations from the inquest into three deaths that resulted from the Ferny Creek fire on 21 January 1997, and the concerns expressed by Ferny Creek residents about the lack of early warning received. |
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| Measuring Community Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies in Victoria |
In 1999, the Australian Bureau of Statistics funded a research project for the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner to undertake research measuring community awareness and preparedness for emergencies in Victoria. This document published in 2000 is applicable and relevant not only in the emergency management context, but across other sectors where community change is sought in both attitude and behaviour. |
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| Memorandum of Understanding - Victorian Government and Sky News |
The Victorian public can get prompt, clear and concise information during an emergency as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Victorian Government and Sky News. |
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| Memorandum of Understanding - Victorian Government and Commercial Radio Australia |
On 26 October 2009 the Victorian Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU) with Commercial Radio Australia for more than 40 commercial radio stations across Victoria to become official emergency broadcasters. |
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| NSCDD Nomination Form |
National Security Capability Development Division's (NSCDD) nomination form is to be used for all Advanced and Professional Development Training, as well as the Introduction to Emergency Management for Local Government training course. |
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| Practice Note - Emergency Management Team |
This practice note provides guidance to emergency management agencies and other relevant organisations with a standard approach to establishing and operating an Emergency Management Team (EMT).
It is also a guide to the practice of managing incidents requiring collaborative decision-making and enhancement of the existing emergency management arrangements. |
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| Practice Note - Operation of a Municipal Emergency Coordination Centre |
This practice note provides guidance to municipal councils and emergency management agencies with a standard approach to establishing and operating a Municipal Emergency Coordination Centre (MECC). It is also a guide to the best practice of managing a MECC, depending on the resources available to the councils. The processes and templates contained in these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive but adaptable to the needs of individual councils.
The practice note covers the functions required to operate a MECC facility and take into consideration that in many cases, multiple functions may be allocated to one person. |
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| Practice Note - Sourcing Supplementary Emergency Response Resources From Municipal Councils
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This Practice Note clarifies the policy and procedures governing the sourcing of supplementary emergency response resources from municipal councils. It is issued for the information of municipal council emergency management practitioners and emergency response agencies. |
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| Relationship Protocol - Office of the Emergency Service Commissioner and the Metropolitan Ambulance Service |
The Relationship Protocol between the Office of the Emergency Service Commissioner and the Metropolitan Ambulance Service was signed on 30 August 2007. |
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| Report of the Inquiry into the 2002-2003 Victorian Bushfires |
A report on the inquiry into issues relating to events leading up to, during, and post the 2002-03 bushfire season. |
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| Review of the April 2008 Windstorm |
In April 2008 a severe windstorm impacted upon Victoria, including metropolitan Melbourne. Following the windstorm the Minister for Energy and Resources and the Minister for Police and Emergency Services requested the Emergency Services Commissioner to undertake a review of the windstorm to identify potential improvements to emergency management arrangements. |
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| Teenagers In Emergencies |
The Teenagers In Emergencies booklet was developed by four Maffra Secondary College students, Jess Bedggood, Amy Foster, Tim Liddell and Sam Montague, in response to their experiences following the 2006 bushfires and 2007 floods that affected the Gippsland region. |
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| The Process of Building Community Alert Systems: A Case Study of Community Consultation |
This case study of Coode Island tracks the community and agency engagement process which was the first step in the development of an integrated model of community warning. This study has recognised the citizenship role of community members and shared responsibility of major hazard facilities, local government, emergency services and community residents. |
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| Training and Exercise Bulletin |
The Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner produces a monthly Training and Exercise Bulletin featuring a state-wide exercise calendar, as well as outlining opportunities available in four areas: |
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| Non Road Rescue Crew Rescue Report |
This form is for lodgement with the Divisional Emergency Response Coordinator by an emergency service crew, which commences or effects road rescue in the absence of an approved crew. |
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| Pocket Guide for Road Rescue Crew Members |
This pocket guide is a summary of the key features of the Road Rescue Arrangements - Victoria. The document creates an integrated multi-agency delivery network that operates within the framework of the State Emergency Response Plan. |
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| Road Rescue Arrangements Victoria |
An overview of the development and provision of road rescue services in Victoria. Includes historical background, policy documents and definitions. |
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| Road Rescue Crew Certificate of Capability to Operate |
This certificate must be presented by a provider approved to equip and train, in its application for approval to operate. |
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| Victoria's Drought Social Recovery Program: Commencing An Evaluation Process |
The declaration of drought in some Victorian regions and the subsequent impact of the drought on communities prompted the Department of Human Services (DHS) to initiate a drought social recovery strategy in 2003, an element of which has been the identification and allocation of funding to support the employment of community development workers and counsellors. The Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner, in consultation with DHS - State Emergency Recovery Unit, undertook to design and facilitate the first phase of a program evaluation process. This report documents the results of this phase and sets out an agenda which will enable evaluation to be continued. |
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| Victorian Emergency Management Grants Program Application Form and Guidelines |
Grants of up to $60,000 are available to organisations with emergency management roles and responsibilities under the Victorian Emergency Management Grants Program. |
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| Victorian Emergency Management Grants Program 2009 |
Grants of up to $60,000 are now available to organisations with emergency management roles and responsibilities under the Victorian Emergency Management Grants Program.
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| Westpoint Chemical Fire Community Report |
This page provides information about the released multi-agency report into the Westpoint chemical fire. |
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