I recommend that the Director of Public Prosecutions develop a policy for overseeing lawyers' exercise of the discretion not to oppose bail that takes into account the seriousness of the offences involved; the experience of the prosecutor appearing; and the views of the police officer in charge o

I recommend that the New South Wales Police Force review its policies, procedures and training to ensure the rapid identification of persons killed or injured in high-risk situations.

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services to work with the Department of Planning and Local Governments to adopt a policy which enables Local Governments to identify, register and communicate, ‘Places of Bushfire Last Resort’ in settlements and townsites where the life risk from bushfire is v

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services to investigate and adopt a system that will allow the public to opt in, monitor and receive, through a ‘push mechanism’, bushfire and other emergency warnings, maps and information using a wide variety of devices including personal hand held smart dev

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services to issue a photo identification card to DFES members, members of Bush Fire Brigades, volunteer emergency services, Incident Management Teams, forestry industry brigade members and Networked Government Emergency Agency members.

The State Emergency Management Committee to adopt, across all hazards, the doctrine of: · the primacy of life; · the ‘Strategic Control Priorities’ (as documented by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services); and · community warnings that are timely, tailored and relevant.

The State Emergency Management Committee to review the policy for traffic management at emergency incidents so it reflects national ‘best practice’. This includes the production and issuing of an aide-memoire to guide traffic management, emergency and incident management personnel.

The State Government to create a Rural Fire Service to enhance the capability for rural fire management and bushfire risk management at a State, regional and local level.

The State Government to establish an arrangement to develop a ‘network’ of Western Australian State Government agency personnel who can be called upon for bushfire and emergency incident management capability within Western Australia.

The State Emergency Management Committee, in consultation with Western Australian Farmers Federation, the Association of Bush Fire Brigades, the Contractors Association of WA, and the Forest Industries Federation of WA, to establish systems for the voluntary registration of: · farmer firefighting

The State Emergency Management Committee to establish a State Bushfire Coordinating Committee as a sub-committee of SEMC.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife to plan for the highest priority hazard reduction burning effort around settlements and critical assets in the South West and Perth Hills.

The Departments of Parks and Wildlife and Fire and Emergency Services to adopt the policy that all bushfire Level 3 Incident Management Teams in the Perth Hills and the South West will be integrated and pre-formed from the start of the 2016/17 fire season with substantial involvement of both the

The Department of Parks and Wildlife to continue emphasis on landscape hazard reduction burning with the annual objective of treating 140,000 hectares per annum in Land Management Zone C.

The State Government to explore options for streamlining the functions and the independence of the State Emergency Management Committee Secretariat and the Office of Bushfire Risk Management with a view to including an inspectorate function, and appointing a person who is dedicated to that role.

The Departments of Parks and Wildlife and Fire and Emergency Services to develop options for the expansion of the ‘Bushfire Mitigation Grant Scheme’ 20 January 2016 Waroona Fire Special Inquiry utilising both State and Commonwealth Government funding to enable the implementation of hazard reducti

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services, utilising the Office of Bushfire Risk Management, to develop a simplified and fast track hazard reduction burn (and other fuel mitigation techniques) planning and approval process to ensure the timely conduct of township and asset protection burns by

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet to conduct an independent review of the current arrangement for the management and distribution of the Emergency Services Levy.

The Departments of Fire and Emergency Services and Parks and Wildlife to investigate and adopt an emergency services resource management system that will enable the registration, tasking, tracking, management and coordination of emergency management personnel, vehicles, plant and aircraft.

Live resource tracking system that can be used by all response agencies

A unified and integrated fire sector across the whole fire hazard

Review of institutional arrangements in the fire sector

Resourcing models appropriate to local needs, including fire risk and remoteness

Cross-agency resource management system

Resolve reoccurring issues with systems and processes

IAP formats and processes appropriate to the nature of the emergency response.

Flexible pre‐formed multi‐ agency IMTs

Appropriate and scalable resourcing models for remote locations

Coordinated and targeted mitigation of fire risk

Co‐designed arrangements that support a unified response to fire

Structures to incorporate local knowledge and situational awareness into the fire response

IGEM recommends that Emergency Management Victoria continue to lead the development and application of a comprehensive sector wide preparedness model for integration within and across emergency management arrangements in Victoria.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that section 107 of the Fire Service Act should be amended to provide greater clarity in relation to discretionary spending by the Chief Officer or alternatively, the Act should be amended to include the authorisation for the State Fire Commissi

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that volunteer firefighters are at risk of being undervalued and underrated and that the Government should use best endeavours to ensure the full acknowledgement and recognition of these services.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that the State Government should establish an independent Chair to govern the State Fire Commission and that this governance arrangement should be included in the reform of the governing legislation.

The Committee recommends the State Fire Commission be fully reimbursed for the costs of the State Emergency Service transfer in years 2014 to 2017.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that the State Fire Commission should assess whether community engagement programs of the State Fire Services and State Emergency should be centralised.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, the State Fire Commission introduces key performance indicators reporting in relation to its work in community engagement to measure its success in program delivery and community engagement.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that the Fuel Reduction Burn Program should be maintained and have its budget directly funded to ensure that the program continues and does not hinder other services or programs.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that a review and reform of the Fire Services Act 1979 is necessary.

The Committee finds that on the evidence presented, that the Government should undertake a review of how firefighting equipment and gear in Tasmania can be better standardised with interstate equipment and gear to improve cross-jurisdiction resource utilisation.

Further conversations take place between TFS and SES to identify what skills and capabilities may be transferable between the agencies, not just in the event of a future fire, but in case of future hazards for which SES is the primary response agency, including food, earthquake and tsunami.

All Tasmanian fire agency staff who are assigned to aviation-related roles be required to complete the formal nationally recognised training appropriate to that role.

That suffcient Tasmanian firefghters are trained in winch operations to sustain a ‘first strike’ capability until they can be reinforced (if necessary) by interstate capability; and that consideration be given to how winch-capable aircraft can be sourced to support this activity at fire incidents

That a full review be undertaken of the benefts and costs of training a cadre of Tasmanian volunteer firefghters in remote area firefghting, with reference to the experience of jurisdictions interstate that already do so.

The Tasmanian fire agencies review: • their pre-season engagement with groups such as (but not limited to) environmental groups who might beneft from a greater understanding of fire management tactics, in order to inform them of and receive feedback on intended approaches to firefghting and fire

The Tasmanian fire agencies think more broadly about how staff who are already employed by Government could support the management of future emergencies.

The Tasmanian fire agencies take steps at a national level to share learnings from the 2016 fires about the administration of interstate assistance and support the codifcation of the workings, structure and reporting lines of an Interstate and International Liaison Unit for future complex deploym

The Tasmanian fire agencies commission a review into the efectiveness of aerial firefghting in the 2016 fires, in order to better understand and to document for future reference the cost-efectiveness of specifc fire suppression strategies and tactics in different vegetation types.

The Tasmanian fire agencies develop a joint multi-agency Fire Preparedness Matrix to guide decision-making in response to severe fire weather conditions or capacity issues.

The Tasmanian fire agencies consider the development of fire operational guidelines to avoid long-term environmental impacts such as: • • • strategies and tactics that will minimise the impact of fire management activities conditions under which earthmoving equipment and fire chemicals may be use

The fire agencies consider how the Regional Fire Operations Centre (RFOC) as a concept adds value once a level 3 IMT is up and running in a region.

The Tasmanian fire agencies develop a multi-agency position to ensure that training for incident controllers includes training in how the transition from local incident control to Divisional Command is managed.

Clarify the relationship between the DHHS and THS in the establishment of flu services.

Establish arrangements to enable the buy-back of specified landslip prone land.

Improve the coordination and delivery of the National seismic monitoring program.

Raise public awareness of the limitations of general insurance relating to landslide.

Develop and deliver flood incident response management training to SES personnel.

Deliver human influenza pandemic training and exercises in THS and other key organisations.

Review volunteering arrangements to improve recruitment and retention.

Improve knowledge and understanding of the effect heatwaves coinciding with other hazard events have on the effectiveness and capability of response and recovery capabilities

Develop coastal inundation education materials that meet the needs of exposed communities.

Include heatwave in existing preparedness programs.

Enhance business continuity planning by the Tasmanian Health Service.

Continue the Fuel Reduction Program.

Review the allocation of responsibilities for earthquake risk management.

Improve working relationship with the insurance industry to access impact information.

Ensure people designing and certifying buildings are appropriately trained and qualified.

Deliver updated inundation mapping.

Quantify the effect of heatwaves on vulnerable people.

Develop and deliver earthquake hazard awareness products.

Develop and implement a community storm safe awareness program.

Review Tas Govt interoperability arrangements.

Review coastal inundation evacuation and response plans.

Extend current tsunami maritime hazard modelling project to deliver coastal inundation modelling.

Investigate the potential effectiveness of economic and financial mechanisms to manage the risk appetites of land owners.

Develop and implement a targeted community flood awareness program.

Assess vulnerability of ecosystems and species to coastal inundation.

Enhance the community development program.

Exercise heatwave arrangements with a focus on the public administration sector and management of vulnerable people

Improve integration of health information systems.

Develop flood evacuation plans for at risk communities.

Develop a strategic plan for the operation and management of the seismic monitoring network in Tasmania.

Create a stakeholder plan template to aid heatwave preparedness and response in facilities occupied by people vulnerable to heatwaves (e.g. nursing homes)

Conduct research into changes of owners’ and occupiers stated and revealed risk tolerance and preference for treatment measures before and after natural hazard events.

Utilise coastal mapping to assess need for coastal defences.

Up-skill isolated communities in emergency PPRR skills.

Nuance the exercises for flood / dam-break / debris flow to incorporate consideration.

Develop a disaster client record system.

Develop arrangements to identify and communicate with people vulnerable to heat stress

Integrate non-government entities into emergency response and recovery arrangements.

Integrate Storage Operating Rules with downstream flood response plans.

Develop innovative response models of patient care to improve surge capacity.

Develop capacity to utilise the new high-resolution satellite products now available.

Improve the understanding of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.

Develop a community education strategy for when to call 000, 131 444, and 132 500.

Review temporary bridge stockpile for adequacy (DSG).

Review and exercise the Tasmanian Mass Vaccination Plan.

Implement a database management approach for notifiable disease record systems.

Review community information and warning systems to ensure they cater for heatwave messages