INQ301

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AFAC Independent Operational Review: A review of the management of the Tasmanian fires of December 2018 – March 2019
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Recommendations for this Inquiry

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INQ301 REC301-2383 C - Response 15 - Inter-service cooperation Recommendation 1

Tasmanian Fire Service (TFS), Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) and Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT) initiate a discussion among their Australasian peers about good practice around managing new fire starts in remote terrain, to include issues around identification, predictive analysis,

INQ301 REC301-2391 E - Agency Organisation 12 - EM agency and authority Recommendation 8

TFS, PWS and STT should jointly carry out work to identify acceptable shift lengths and patterns – including requirements for rest days – for all personnel working on emergency operations.

INQ301 REC301-2390 E - Agency Organisation 12 - EM agency and authority Recommendation 7

TFS, PWS and STT should jointly reach a decision on whether a winch capable remote area firefighting capability should be maintained in Tasmania; which agency or agencies should be responsible for that program; and how a winch capable remote area firefighting capability can be safely trained and

INQ301 REC301-2389 E - Agency Organisation 12 - EM agency and authority Recommendation 6A

The proposed Tasmania State Air Desk should have a finance officer attached to its staff.

INQ301 REC301-2388 C - Response 15 - Inter-service cooperation Recommendation 6

TFS, PWS and STT should establish a State Air Desk, to be staffed by specialist staff year-round, with responsibility for managing both preparatory and contractual issues out of season as well as aircraft management when fires or other emergency events are occurring.

INQ301 REC301-2387 E - Agency Organisation 32 - Doctrine, standards, and reform Recommendation 5

TFS, PWS and STT agree an updated version of the Interagency Fire Management Protocol which maintains the principle that there will be one state-wide point of command for major unwanted fires burning in the State of Tasmania, explicitly recognises the right of each of TFS, PWS and STT to have the

INQ301 REC301-2386 C - Response 15 - Inter-service cooperation Recommendation 4

TFS, PWS and STT should work with government and each other to continue to pursue a whole-of-state fuel management and burning program that encompasses all land tenures, meets the range of outcomes required by the state (township protection, risk reduction and landscape-scale burns) and is inclus

INQ301 REC301-2385 A - Responsibility 25 - Inquiry, audit, lessons management and after action review Recommendation 3

TFS should initiate a policy review (seeking support from government as appropriate) to clearly identify what body or agency is responsible for planning, carrying out and enforcing fuel management on private property at a township level.

INQ301 REC301-2384 E - Agency Organisation 36 - Volunteers Recommendation 2

TFS should pursue the creation of a cadre of volunteer remote area firefighters.

INQ301 REC301-2392 B - Preparedness 39 - Disaster Risk Management Recommendation 9

TFS should engage in discussions with government about the construction of purpose-built State Control Centre facilities for emergency management in Tasmania.