Personal protective equipment (masks, gowns, gloves, goggles) – enhance stocktake methods.

Undertake inter-agency severe storm exercises.

Development mechanisms to support small councils to manage treatment across the PPRR spectrum (across all hazards).

Implement a database management approach for notifiable disease record systems.

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

Identify facilities that can be used as cool spaces during heatwaves and establish linkages between operators and emergency management organisations

Review interagency information sharing arrangements.

Integrate clean-up arrangements into emergency plans.

Increased regulation of landslide risk assessment.

Investigate usefulness of satellite data for PPRR (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) planning.

Assess options for managed coastal retreat.

Personal protective equipment (masks, gowns, gloves, goggles) – review supply/distribution arrangements.

Develop and exercise Severe Storm Emergency Management Plan.

Assessment of council’s capacity to manage land effectively.

Continue the enhancement of forecast and warning services.

Develop a flexible plan for establishing flu-specific services.

Improve understanding of the weather systems that cause storm surge events to improve predictability and warnings.

Review all hazards response and recovery plans to ensure they address likely earthquake consequences.

Undertake local level emergency management planning for areas at risk of debris flow.

Review State Special Emergency Plan: Human Influenza Pandemic Emergencies.

Make coastal mapping available to public.

Improve understanding of how coastal inundation events interact with riverine flood events.

Develop enablers and capacity for Tasmanian earthquake risk owners.

Encourage businesses to consider human influenza pandemics in business continuity planning.

Build flood capable infrastructure.

Formalise response triage arrangements.

Improve beach morphology mapping to understand coastal inundation, including post-event surveys.

Deliver Flood Studies.

Identify and anlalyse the location of critical infrastructure within defined flood areas.

Improve maintenance of flood mitigation infrastructure.

Relax the requirement for medical certificates in the event of an outbreak.

Locate and design new public infrastructure so that it can continue to operate during flood events.

Develop SOP for recovery package.

Develop a statewide flood hazard map for use within the Tasmanian Planning System.

Actively manage riparian vegetation to manage flood dynamics.

Pro-actively manage landslide areas.

Make property level information on landslide hazards publicly available

Improve information about electricity demand during heatwaves.

Build capacity to enable Incident Management Teams to manage the likely increased frequency and intensity of major fire events.

Review current all-hazards emergency management arrangements to evaluate if they adequately address Tsunami response and recovery requirements.

Review environmental risks associated with hazardous uses within flood prone areas.

Review Ambulance Tasmania surge capacity.

Test the Biosecurity Act 2015.

Monitor effectiveness of new Land Use Planning and Building System reforms to evaluate effectiveness of delivering desired outcomes.

Monitor effectiveness of new Land Use Planning reforms to evaluate effectiveness of delivering desired outcomes.

Establish emergency services ICT redundancy arrangements for damage loss of communications infrastructure.

Investigate the costs and benefits in enhancing the current Tsunami detection buoy network.

Continue the Bushfire Ready Neighbourhoods Program.

Advocate for an National Notifiable Diseases Database.

Include consideration of coastal inundation in land use planning for new developments and uses.

Further development of Landslide Hazard Banding of the State (MRT).

Ensure sufficient investment in controls across the PPRR spectrum with a focus on Prevention and Mitigation.

Continue the Community Bushfire Protection Program with a renewed focus on vulnerable groups.

Engage with industry bodies to explore opportunities to better understand and manage risks.

Develop, implement, review and exercise inter-agency community evacuation and recovery plans across the State.

Consider outcomes of national review of warnings and review resilience of warning systems’ infrastructure.

Review building controls to ensure they are adaptive to changing coastal inundation risks.

Develop linkages between landslide risk assessors and building engineers/structural works.

Integrate existing capabilities into a Total Flood Warning System.

Ensure appropriate levels of insurance of public assets from flood risks.

State to develop a Swift Water rescue capability.

Personal protective equipment (masks, gowns, gloves, goggles) – review fit-testing vs fit-checking.

Investigate the costs and benefits in enhancing the current Tsunami warning arrangements with signage and audible warning systems at key exposed locations (e.g. Port Arthur and Kingston Beach).

Expand the existing Fire Ready Schools Program with enhanced support and incorporate other sites used by vulnerable groups.

Identify and analyse statewide storm hazard risk.

Exercise time-critical decision making processes within the context of an earthquake scenario.

Assess water supply resilience in the case of an interruption.

Review legislation relating to Fuel Stove only areas, Fire Permit System and Total Fire Bans to ensure appropriate incentives to modify individuals’ behaviour.

Promote the use of Water Sensitive Urban Design in stormwater systems.

Incentivising safer sites (charge people less rates and discounts for defensive actions by land managers).

Review legal liability of participants in prevention and mitigation preparedness, response and recovery activities.

Review flood response sustainment capacity of organisations.

Improve the strategic resource-to-risk skills mix (recruitment, retention, capacity), including investigating difference models of volunteering within the TFS Brigade Network.

Provide information on landslide hazards and risks to decision makers.

Implement a social marking program to promote improved respiratory etiquette and hygiene.

Investigate the costs and benefits of delivering a public education and awareness program.

Introduce child-centred household level disaster risk reduction strategies in school programs.

Improve community educational information.

Incorporate heatwave surge response planning into business continuity planning.

Review seismic monitoring network alert systems to ensure emergency managers are on the contact lists.

Raised access routes.

Ensure landuse planning and building systems, including appeal mechanisms, are transparent, equitable and integrated at the municipal, State and national levels.

Continue the development and implementation of community level Bushfire Mitigation Plans.

Improve insurance affordability.

Increase SES Capability and Capacity to respond to flood event.

Maintain adequate seasonal fire crew resources across the fire agencies.

Provide training sessions to GPs to improve their understanding of their roles, options and obligations relating to human influenza pandemic.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania investigate whether higher proportions of volunteers were impacting on mobilisation times in the North.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania collects data to allow regular and meaningful comparison of clinical outcomes at the regional level, to better allocate resources and to rapidly identify problems.

The report recommends that regional summary reports of clinical reviews be standardised to facilitate review and comparison across regions.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania outline what KPIs are measured and provide targets or benchmarks to define what is good or poor performance.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania regularly reviews its emergency and urgent determinants methodology to ensure that it continues to be best practice and in accordance with requirements of the National Academy of Emergency Medical Dispatch.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania develop strategies to improve response times to those of other jurisdictions and undertake cost benefit analysis of those strategies before deciding on implementation.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania reinforce the requirement to record factors contributing to response time outliers and the remedial action undertaken to address the contributing factors.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania investigate whether the additional resources in the North and North West regions were effective in reducing average response times.

The report recommends that Ambulance Tasmania investigate why the level of multiple responses had increased.

Review control system for the main generator normal/essential changeover system and ensure that it has effective backup/manual or redundant operations, and suitable testing facilities.

Generator dual redundant starter systems should be considered.

As part of the electrical master plan update recommended above, a complete and consistent set of single line diagrams describing the electrical distribution network be prepared. Relevant diagrams to be laminated and displayed in the main substations.

Review generator installations details as noted in report and implement physical improvements where possible.