Defining recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives for key business systems.

Developing, approving and implementing disaster recovery plans for all key business systems.

Conducting a risk assessment of disaster recovery plans for key business systems.

Scheduling disaster recovery tests for key business systems regularly, in line with their importance.

We recommend that NSW Health continue with its good work and conclude agreements with private health providers specifying roles, and expectations in the case of an infectious disease pandemic.

That Melbourne Water ensures that stakeholders (and especially local councils) are fully consulted before and during the development of drainage strategies and plans. These plans should consider councils’ drainage systems.

That Melbourne Water ensures stakeholder expectations are fully considered when setting flood risk reduction targets.

That DPI develops a comprehensive strategy for communicating to industry their rights and responsibilities in relation to threats, incursions, outbreaks and post-outbreak; and also for communicating internally.

That DPI effectively communicates to all sectors of the industry their responsibilities to report new threats, and how to report them.

That DPI works with industry to develop a training module on the certification and verification system for inclusion in industry quality assurance programs.