Inquiry Search
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC327-4350 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | By December 2023, the Rural Fire Service should: develop a fleet enhancement framework and strategy that is informed by an assessment of current fleet capability to respond to fire incidents, and research into the most appropriate technologies and appliances to address emerging and future fire risks across NSW. |
REC327-4345 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | By December 2023, the Rural Fire Service should: review and improve processes for timely recording of fleet asset movements, locations, and maintenance status. |
REC327-4346 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | By December 2023, the Rural Fire Service should: establish a fleet maintenance framework to ensure regular update of District Service Agreements with local councils. |
REC327-4347 | 36 - Volunteers | By December 2023, the Rural Fire Service should: develop a strategy to ensure that local brigade volunteers are adequate in numbers and appropriately trained to operate fleet appliances in the RFS Districts where they are required. |
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC304-2409 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Formalise and clearly define the powers and duties of Bushfires NT personnel, including volunteers, thereby clarifying Bushfires NT’s role in bushfire management in the Northern Territory. |
REC304-2421 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Include a detailed description of the role, responsibility and accountability of |
REC304-2408 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Introduce clear Terms of Reference for the Bushfires Council and Regional Bushfires Committees, and introduce a requirement for the Minister to consider advice and recommendations from the Council. |
REC304-2420 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Enshrine the broader fire management principles, including coordination, strategic planning, mitigation, monitoring and control within the Act. |
REC304-2405 | 24 - Govt responsibility | Retain the Bushfires Council as a Ministerial advisory body. |
REC304-2418 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Amend the object to provide for ‘The mitigation, management, and suppression of bushfires’. Definitions of these terms should be included in the Act, and should include clarification that bushfire suppression can include emergency response activities in certain circumstances |
REC304-2417 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Amend the Act title to ‘Bushfires Management Act’. |
REC304-2415 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Define formal bushfire management regimes for areas with different bushfire management requirements and define bushfire management responsibilities in those areas. One category will provide for areas that warrant provision of a wildfire response capacity, another will allow for the declaration of temporary fire management arrangements for the duration of identified high-risk circumstances. |
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC267-1151 | 24 - Govt responsibility | Government Communications Coordination |
REC267-1154 | 36 - Volunteers | Coordination of Volunteer Support |
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC209-1660 | 24 - Govt responsibility | Better alignment between divisions within DNRETAS be achieved through the development of an integrated strategy that addresses the combined objectives of weed management, land management, carbon farming and biodiversity management using fire across the Territory. |
REC209-1659 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Regional Fire Management Plans be reviewed for all regions prior to the start of each fire season. |
REC209-1654 | 24 - Govt responsibility | That the Director Bushfires NT NOT be appointed as a member of Council. |
REC209-1645 | 14 - Incident Mgt Teams | Ensure that adequate administrative personnel are available within the incident control structure to provide administrative and knowledge management support for incident management. |
REC209-1678 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the Bushfires Act and Regulations be reviewed and modernised after the implementation of the recommendations of this review. |
REC209-1670 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Bushfires NT create a bushfire management strategy and emergency response procedures framework including the criteria that define the escalation and response requirements for all incidents up to and including the establishment of an EOC, applicable for all regions across the Territory. |