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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.

We use X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook to communicate with communities about our work.

How we use social media is guided by Guidance for the Use of Social Media in the Victorian Public Sector (External link) and the Department of Justice and Community Safety Social Media Policy (External link)

Likes are acknowledgments only and not endorsements.

We may collect any personal information that you provide us via the @IGEM_Vic (External link) X account and facebook.com/IGEMVictoria (External link) Facebook account under section 8C of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, for the purposes of engaging and consulting with the public.

Any personal information we collect via X will be handled appropriately and in line with this privacy statement.

X (formerly) Twitter may also collect your personal information for its own purposes.

When you agree to a social media account's terms of service and privacy policy, you agree to your information being transferred outside Victoria.

To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, please do not post any personal information (including phone numbers and email addresses) in your post, comment, or reply.

Additionally, please do not share personal information about others via social media.

Links to non-vic.gov.au websites

This privacy statement does not apply to any external websites that are linked on the vic.gov.au website.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.

When you visit other websites, we recommend you read the privacy statements or policies of these websites before providing personal information.

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