Critical Infrastructure Resilience - 2018 Report | Inspector-General for Emergency Management Victoria

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.

Consistent with its function and objectives under the Emergency Management Act 2013 (the Act), since 2015 IGEM has monitored implementation of Victoria’s critical infrastructure resilience arrangements, assessed incremental improvements and identified improvement opportunities.

This report explains why IGEM is transitioning from monitoring implementation of the arrangements to assessing the efficiency, and eventually the effectiveness, of the arrangements.

This report:

begins with a case study on the South Australia black system event to provide readers with an appreciation of the interdependencies between services
provides an overview of the arrangements in Victoria
outlines IGEM's interpretation of the intent of the arrangements based on the objectives and roles for government and industry established in the Act and based on the vision, principles, strategic priorities and roles for government and industry described in the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy
explains how this interpretation is guiding IGEM's approach.

Critical Infrastructure Resilience - 2018 Report was published on 12 November 2019

You can access the report from the link at the bottom of this page or view as an online flipbook (External link).

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