Beyond the incident

Held: 29 September 2014

Presenters:   

Dr Christine Owen, University of Tasmania

Dr Chris Bearman, Central Queensland University

Dr Ben Brooks, University of Tasmania

Geoff Conway, lead end user, on behalf of the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Victoria

Research project covered: Effective incident management organising

What's it about?

This study has improved the understanding of how multi-agency emergency management coordination at regional and state levels (and at a national level in New Zealand) could be improved in order to reduce the consequences to communities of an emergency. The project investigated information flow, communication, capacity to adjust to emerging scenarios, breakdown in coordination, training and education and how changes to these elements will support more effective incident management. These findings will enable agencies to continue to refine their performance at these levels. 

Learn more about the research in this short video

Replay the forum

Who attended?

• Senior emergency managers
• State and regional incident coordinators
• Emergency management policy makers

Key resources you should know about

• Fire Note on Multi-Agency Emergency Management Coordination above the MIT - Fire Note 118: Emergency management
• Organising for Effective Incident Management final report