2010 APCO Australasia ConferencePresenters : Terry Hayes & Michael ForeshewDate : 17 March 2010

Connecting with our communities

2009 – A great leap forward

Bushfire Safety System Model

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Engaging with Community

• Awareness and understanding of bushfire

• Planning and preparedness

• Information and warnings

• Community response

• GOAL - SURVIVAL

VFRR

Purpose :

• Develop a Municipal Bushfire Risk Register

Key points :

• Uses ISO 31000 Risk Management process• Uses a database and ESRI ARC engine (or

maps)• Register is built through collaboration• It presents risk and treatments spatially

Risk Assessment

Human Settlement Evaluation

Risk Map

Treatment Reference

Insert Maps

Asset Reference

Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool• Launched in October 2009.

• To assist residents to make an informed decision about the defendability of their property.

• A hotline and email address was set up to take enquiries regarding the tool.

Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool

Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool

Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool

Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool

CRM

CRM

One Source One Message (OSOM)Objectives :

• To provide timely, accurate information to communities regarding fire activities and incidents.

• To establish a single ‘behind the scenes’ website for consumption by CFA and Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) websites.

• To produce warnings and alerts in a clear, concise manner with consistent terminology based on the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

One Source One Message (OSOM)Objectives :

• To provide Victorian Emergency Services Organisations (ESO’s) and support organisations the technical capability of having a single source of information for emergency warnings and alerts.

• To provide Victorian Emergency Services Organisations (ESO’s) and support organisations a simple, intuitive process for producing and distributing emergency warnings and alerts.

• To distribute Alerts and Warnings through standards based channels for receipt and consumption by media and inter-governmental agencies.

Warnings – Pre-OSOM

• Capability to create and issue Alert and Warning messages from field was limited.

• Process was largely paper based and involved faxing to central location for publishing to website only. Faxes issued to media outlets.

• Problems with this approach included :

Currency of message information Relied upon CFA network Public receives information through a number of means Visibility across all incidents was not possible Inconsistent language

• Field issued alert and warning messages.

• Alert/warning messages issued in variety of formats and mediums ensuring greater coverage of the public.

• Visibility across agencies is now possible ensuring greater operational effectiveness.

• Benefits realised :

Smaller latency between intelligence being received and public being informed

Standardised language and message construction/format

Warnings – Now

OSOM Elements

DistributionEngine

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Info. OfficerSCC/ICC

Next Steps

• Building functionality

• Convergence

• Staying grounded

Connecting with our communities

2009 – A great leap forward

2010 – On the path to excellence