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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2023 | Implementation monitoring of 'Review of 10 years of reform in Victoria's emergency management sector' and 'Inquiry into the 2019-20 Victorian Fire Season – Phase 1’ - Progress Report - 2022 (External link) | IGEM's second progress report on the Victorian Government’s implementation of recommendations and actions in response to the Victorian Fire Season Inquiry Phase 1 report and and its 10 Year Review of sector reform. Of the 139 actions committed by the government to address recommendations from the 10 Year Review and Phase 1 report, a further 34 actions have been assessed as complete or closed, leaving 47 actions in progress. | Inspector-General for Emergency Management |
| 2023 | 2022-23 Major Incidents Report (External link) | An overview of major incidents that involved the fire and emergency services sector, this report highlights significant incidents that have been of impact or consequence for fire and emergency services, providing background information about the incident and the corresponding response. | Australian Government |
| 2023 | Care through Disaster 2.0 (External link) | A values-based report acknowledging that disaster recovery requires strong communities that are properly supported on a much longer timescale. The report's findings and better practices recognise the need for people to be Seen, Safe and Supported during and after a crisis, and that communities need to be strong and connected before disaster strikes for this to occur. | Independent |
| 2023 | Improving crisis communications to culturally and linguistically diverse communities (External link) | A NSW inquiry report that looks at improving crisis communications to CALD communities, it examines ways to improve channels of communications, and the use of multicultural and CALD community groups and networks to distribute in-language information. The report makes reference to actions taken by the Victorian Government during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Independent |
| 2023 | Australia’s midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 Report (External link) | Australia's midterm review of the Sendai Framework to ‘assess progress on integrating disaster risk reduction into policies, programmes and investments at all levels, identify good practice, gaps and challenges and accelerate the path to achieving the goal of the Sendai Framework and its seven global targets by 2030.’ | Australian Government |