INQ286

Quantify the effect of heatwaves on vulnerable people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review Ambulance Tasmania surge capacity.

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

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

Enhance business continuity planning by the Tasmanian Health Service.

Develop a flexible plan for establishing flu-specific services.

Review and exercise the Tasmanian Mass Vaccination Plan.

Review State Special Emergency Plan: Human Influenza Pandemic Emergencies.

Review Tas Govt interoperability arrangements.

Pro-actively manage landslide areas.

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

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

Incorporate heatwave surge response planning into business continuity planning.

Improve community educational information.

Include heatwave in existing preparedness programs.

Provide information on landslide hazards and risks to decision makers.

Make property level information on landslide hazards publicly available

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

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

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

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

Increased regulation of landslide risk assessment.

Assessment of council’s capacity to manage land effectively.

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

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

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

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

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

Advocate for an National Notifiable Diseases Database.

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

Up-skill isolated communities in emergency PPRR skills.

Develop SOP for recovery package.

Develop and exercise Severe Storm Emergency Management Plan.

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

Identify and analyse statewide storm hazard risk.

Increase understanding of the Puysegur Trench dynamics to improve certainty around the likelihood and magnitude of future Tsunamis.

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

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

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

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).

Deliver updated inundation mapping.

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

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

Enhance the community development program.