An overview of the Inspector-General for Emergency Management's activities is provided in the Department of Justice and Regulation - Annual Report 2017–18.

The annual report highlights IGEM’s activities including:

Assurance Frameworks and Monitoring

  • Refreshing the Monitoring and Assurance Framework

  • Annual Assurance Summary

  • Critical infrastructure resilience assurance

  • Parliamentary Inquiry into the CFA Training College at Fiskville – Monitoring

  • Victorian Emergency Management Strategic Action Plan - implementation monitoring

  • Thunderstorm asthma–implementation monitoring

  • Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission– implementation monitoring

  • Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry–implementation monitoring

  • Bushfire fuel management–implementation monitoring

  • Investigations into breaches of planned burns control lines

  • Assurance of fire services’ response times data

  • Performance of the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority

Reviewing Victoria’s emergency management arrangements

  • Annual Forward Plan of Reviews 2017

  • Annual Forward Plan of Reviews - 2018

  • Review of the SKM Coolaroo Recycling Plant Fire

Governance and culture

  • Building a human rights based culture

  • Implementing the Integrity Strategy

The 2017-18 annual report was tabled in parliament on 20 September 2018.

Read the full report on parliament.vic.gov.au/council/tabled-documents (External link)