Inquiry Search
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC233-1604 | 8 - Communications and warnings | Governments and other stakeholders consider reviewing their existing emergency management arrangements to ensure public communications are clear and the public is kept informed of the incident response. |
REC233-1603 | 8 - Communications and warnings | Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) to work with the Triple Zero Awareness Work Group through Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) Emergency Service Advisory Committee to review Triple Zero awareness messages with regard to telecommunications outages. |
REC233-1592 | 8 - Communications and warnings | Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy will work with the Communications Sector Group within the Trusted Information Sharing Network to develop best practice guidance for owners of critical communications infrastructure regarding public messaging during a prolonged telecommunications outage covering: |
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC215-1878 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Regulators can help to achieve improved outcomes by acknowledging that changes to legislation and the BPEM guidelines may be required to help address the identified issues |
REC215-1873 | 8 - Communications and warnings | Fire services can improve outcomes by implementing standard procedures that ensure the welfare and safety of crews and the public are not compromised |
REC215-1872 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Fire services can improve outcomes by implementing standard procedures that ensure the welfare and safety of crews and the public are not compromised |
Rec-ID | Code | Recommendation |
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REC158-3426 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the nominated marine safety authority, in consultation with the Emergency Services Commissioner, senior emergency services personnel and relevant port stakeholders, is responsible for establishing appropriate performance standards, risk management guidelines and good practice guidelines for marine emergency management. |
REC158-3435 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That Harbour Masters have the appropriate powers, authority, accountability, skills, responsibility and indemnity to provide a coordinated response of marine resources in support of emergency services, except where the nominated marine safety authority is the control agency for a marine pollution or marine casualty emergency. |
REC158-3440 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the Water Division Emergency Response Plan is amended, by the Water Division emergency response coordinator, to provide a framework to coordinate a marine response that crosses declared port water boundaries and requires resource coordination and prioritisation. |
REC158-3425 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | Consequential or complementary amendments to the Emergency Management Act are required to ensure that: |
REC158-3434 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the accountability relationship between Harbour Masters and the Director of Marine Safety is strengthened in the relevant legislation. |
REC158-3439 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the port marine emergency management arrangements are integrated with the Victorian Water Division Emergency Response Plan. |
REC158-3424 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That legislation is prepared by the Department of Transport to ensure marine emergency management arrangements are clarified and provide: |
REC158-3429 | 38 - Agency/Department Reporting | That the nominated marine safety authority is required to ensure that incident notification and data recording requirements for Victorian commercial ports are consistent and adhered to. |
REC158-3438 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the port/channel managers coordinate marine emergency management planning in the port and are required to ensure that individual port stakeholder marine emergency management arrangements plans are integrated with the whole of port marine emergency management arrangements. |
REC158-3428 | 38 - Agency/Department Reporting | That the nominated marine safety authority, in consultation with the Emergency Services Commissioner and senior emergency services personnel, is responsible for monitoring the implementation and auditing against appropriate performance standards, risk management guidelines and good practice guidelines. |
REC158-3437 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That port/channel managers coordinate marine emergency planning for the port and are required to ensure that marine emergency arrangements are integrated with whole of port emergency management plans. |
REC158-3453 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That, where applicable, consideration is given to legislative amendment that will enable the findings of this report to be applied to areas inside State waters but outside commercial port waters. |
REC158-3427 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That the standards and guidelines determined by the nominated marine safety authority require port/channel managers to conduct a marine emergency risk assessment using AS/NZ 4360:2004 Risk Management and, in addition, must require port/channel managers to: |
REC158-3436 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That Harbour Masters are the designated principle marine specialists within the port and work directly with emergency services to provide advice and the interface with the marine legislative powers, to manage a marine emergency. |
REC158-3441 | 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform | That, where practical, risk assessments, emergency planning, training and exercising are integrated to minimise duplication of effort. |