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.

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Publish year Assurance activity Summary Organisation
2021 Clearing a path to full inclusion of people with disability in emergency management policy and practice in Australia (External link) An issues paper prepared in response to the roadblocks to safety and wellbeing for Australians with disability in emergency management. It distills six key issues that present barriers to the full inclusion of people with disability in emergency management, and five practical actions that institutions with responsibility for emergency management and other stakeholders can undertake. Independent
2021 Emergency Resilience in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities (External link) This report provides community groups, emergency management agencies and migration support organisations with knowledge and tools to ensure that CALD communities’ resilience can flourish in a world characterised by increased mobility, multiculturalism, and more frequent disasters Australian Red Cross
2021 A Pathway to Infrastructure Resilience: Advisory Paper 1: Opportunities for systemic change (External link) A research paper that recommends a whole-of-system, all-hazards approach to resilience planning that focuses on strengthening an infrastructure asset, network and sector, as well as the place, precinct, city, and region that the infrastructure operates within. Infrastructure Australia
2021 Victoria’s infrastructure strategy 2021-2051 (External link) A strategy that builds on the work of the first cross-sectoral infrastructure strategy delivered in 2016, it identifies the top infrastructure priorities for Victoria’s nine regions to reduce disadvantage, build on economic strengths and address environmental risks. Infrastructure Victoria
2021 Community organisation involvement in disaster management (External link) Research focusing specifically on the role and involvement of community organisations in disaster management. The research includes results from stakeholders interviews and an online survey targeting not-for-profits and community service organisations, and provides key findings and recommendations for emergency management organisations, government funding bodies and community organisation peak bodies to improve the utilisation of capabilities offered by community organisations in disaster management. Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
2021 Victoria's Critical Infrastructure All Sectors Resilience Report 2020 (External link) An overview of the eight Victorian critical infrastructure sectors, including the key emergency risks, dependencies, and completed and proposed resilience improvement initiatives for each. The report also includes 5 case studies covering impacts to critical infrastructure and essential services from key emergency events in 2019-20 (bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic). Emergency Management Victoria
2020 Planning and capability requirements for catastrophic and cascading disasters - final project report (External link) A three-year research project focusing on the nature of catastrophic disasters in the Australian context, frequency of such disasters, most appropriate practices to plan and prepare for them, and how businesses and community organisations can best be incorporated into planning and preparedness arrangements for catastrophic disasters. This research finds that disaster planning and risk reduction are not effectively implemented within Australia and that planning is being inhibited by cultural, knowledge and resource constraints dominated by reactive response-oriented approaches by emergency services. It also identifies the need for a collective national view of future capability requirements to inform investment. The outcomes of this research were presented as evidence to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements. Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
2020 Victoria's Critical Infrastructure All Sectors Resilience Report 2019 (External link) An overview of the eight Victorian critical infrastructure sectors, detailing the most prominent emergency risks likely to disrupt their operation and summarises the resilience improvement initiatives conducted by the eight sectors. Emergency Management Victoria
2020 Victorian Emergency Management Strategic Action Plan Update #3 2018–21 - Progress Update 2019 (External link) An assessment of the state's implementation progress of the SAP Update #3 2018–21. The SAP is a rolling plan that outlines statewide strategic priorities, with corresponding actions, to support Victoria in achieving its vision of safer and more resilient communities. Inspector-General for Emergency Management
2020 Emergency risks in Victoria (External link) A report into the results of Victoria’s State-level emergency risk assessment completed in November 2017 with updated information about Victoria’s significant emergency related risks, including a comparison of their severity, and the institutional arrangements in place to manage these risks. Victorian Government