Review of incident management teams: accreditation and rostering

All hazards

Risks spanning across multiple hazard types and across the emergency management system.

Biosecurity

Exotic animal and plant disease outbreaks and pest incursions can have significant economic, community and environmental impacts.

Bushfire and other fires

Bushfire and other fires have potential consequences including loss of life and property, and damage to infrastructure and environment.

Climate change

Risks include more days of extreme heat, harsher fire weather, less rainfall and rising sea levels.

Communications disruption

Communications services are crucial in keeping communities safe, connected and informed before, during and after emergencies.

Cyber security and ICT systems failure

Risks relating to the confidentiality, availability, integrity of information and data and disruption of services.

Energy supply disruption

Reliable energy supplies are critical to many social and economic activities.

Flood

Major flood events have occurred in Victoria every 10 to 20 years, with much of the increasing risk created by human settlement.

Hazardous material incident

Potential risks relate to many places where Victoria’s hazardous materials are manufactured, stored, transported, used and disposed.

Heatwave

Heatwaves are considered to be the ‘silent killer’ of extreme weather events and are the leading cause of weather-related deaths in Australia.

Public health emergency

Risks may relate to the delivery of public health services, with impacts on community health and wellbeing and potential for loss of life.

Supply chain disruption

Geopolitical, environmental, economic, societal and infrastructure-related shocks can expose supply chains to wide ranging consequences.

Terrorism and extremism

Attacks carried out by individuals or non-state groups with ideological, political or religious goals can result in loss of life, severe injury and/or material damage.

Water supply disruption

Risks include collection, storage, treatment, delivery, availability and allocation of water for consumption and environmental, recreation and cultural uses.

Workforce and resourcing

Risks may relate to human resource supply and skills to support emergency management operations.

The Inspector-General for Emergency Management's review of incident management teams (IMTs) assesses the effectiveness of incident management arrangements in the Victorian emergency management sector, specific to role accreditation processes and approaches to the rostering of personnel into pre-planned and pre-formed IMTs.

IGEM's review makes a number of observations and two recommendations, focusing on AIIMS Level 3 incident management for Class 1 emergencies.

Incident management teams: accreditation and rostering is a system-wide review identified in IGEM's 2016 Annual Forward Plan of Reviews.

The report was published on 7 July 2017.

Government response to IGEM's review

The government supports in principle the recommendations of the IGEM’s review and has asked Emergency Management Victoria to lead the further work required to develop a sustainable IMT training and development model for the sector

Read the full response to the IGEM Review of incident management teams: accreditation and rostering (External link)

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