A hazard is a source of potential harm. A hazard event is another term for emergency.
Some assurance activities examine system-wide risks that span across multiple hazard types, including reviews into the emergency management functions of sector organisations.
Examples of such assurance activities include the Review of 10 years of reform in Victoria’s emergency management sector and the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements.
| Publish year | Assurance activity | Summary | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Victoria’s Critical Infrastructure All Sectors Resilience Report 2024 (External link) | The ninth report published under Victoria’s critical infrastructure resilience arrangements, this report identifies key emergency risks, interdependencies and resilience improvement initiatives being addressed collaboratively by industry and government across Victorian critical infrastructure sectors. | Emergency Management Victoria |
| 2024 | Strata disaster: How prepared are our apartment communities for emergencies and disasters? (External link) | A snapshot of the readiness of Australia’s fast growth apartment sector to respond to climate and non-climate related emergencies and disasters. The insights and findings presented in the report are informed by research and consultation conducted by the Owners Corporation Network between March 2023 – April 2024. | Independent |
| 2024 | National resilience for Australia - learning the lessons (External link) | A report that highlights lessons drawn from international responses to crisis, it brings together the disciplines of disaster management, defence strategy and national security to examine what an integrated national approach to resilience looks like, and how national resilience thinking can help Australia build more effective and more efficient responses to crisis and change. | Australian Strategic Policy Institute |
| 2024 | Managing State-significant risks (External link) | State Significant Risks (SSR) can disrupt Victoria's community, economy and environment (including a pandemic, bushfires and cyber-crime). To reduce serious potential impacts in the future, government agencies need to work together to identify relevant SSRs and manage them appropriately | Victorian Auditor-General's Office |
| 2024 | Understanding and Improving Machine Translations for Emergency Communications (External link) | An investigation into the use of machine translation in urgent ‘behaviour-change communication’ to improve emergency messaging to multicultural communities. The report provides practical suggestions for how to reduce or avoid machine translation problems and risks, to create more efficient and effective, and culturally appropriate emergency communication strategies. | Academia |
| 2024 | Better acknowledging and resourcing the information accessibility sector in Australia (External link) | An examination of what is needed for good crisis communications for people with disabilities, the report provides recommendations to improve the production of accessible information for people with disability in Australia. | Academia |
| 2024 | Relief, recovery and resilience: learning from disasters (External link) | Research often tends to focus on engagement and not outcomes when it comes to understanding the role of community organisations in disaster recovery. Best and emerging practices can help communities understand recovery, prepare for recovery, and manage recovery in the aftermath of a disaster. | Independent |
| 2024 | Boots on the ground: Raising resilience (External link) | A report that examines Australia's disaster preparedness, response and recovery models, and explores plausible alternative models to current ones. It identifies key challenges in Australia's disaster response such as the lack of empowerment for local communities, inadequate funding for local councils and coordination as well as communication challenges. | Parliament of Australia |
| 2024 | Victoria’s Critical Infrastructure All Sectors Resilience Report 2023 (External link) | The eighth report published under Victoria’s critical infrastructure resilience arrangements, it identifies key emergency risks, inter-dependencies and resilience improvement initiatives being addressed collaboratively by industry and government across Victorian critical infrastructure sectors. | Emergency Management Victoria |
| 2024 | Independent review of Commonwealth disaster funding (The Colvin report) - Final report (External link) | The review examined the Commonwealth’s disaster funding arrangements to identify the reforms required to produce a system that is scalable, sustainable, effective, equitable, transparent and accessible. The roles and responsibilities of the state and local governments were also examined. | Independent |