1. 2010 APCO Australasia Conference Presenters : Terry Hayes & Michael Foreshew Date :17 March 2010

2. Connecting with our communities 2009 – A great leap forward

3. Bushfire Safety System Model

4. Engaging with Community Awareness and understanding of bushfire Planning and preparedness Information and warnings Community response GOAL - SURVIVAL

5. VFRR Purpose : Develop a Municipal Bushfire Risk Register Key points : Uses ISO 31000 Risk Management process Uses a database and ESRI ARC engine (or maps) Register is built through collaboration It presents risk and treatments spatially

6. Risk Assessment Human Settlement Evaluation

7. Risk Map Treatment Reference Insert Maps Asset Reference

8. Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool Launched in October 2009. To assist residents to make an informed decision about the defendability of their property. A hotline and email address was set up to take enquiries regarding the tool.

9. Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool

13. CRM

15. One Source One Message (OSOM) Objectives : To provide timely, accurate information to communities regarding fire activities and incidents. To establish a single ‘behind the scenes’ website for consumption by CFA and Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) websites. To produce warnings and alerts in a clear, concise manner with consistent terminology based on the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

16. One Source One Message (OSOM) Objectives : To provide Victorian Emergency Services Organisations (ESO’s) and support organisations the technical capability of having a single source of information for emergency warnings and alerts. To provide Victorian Emergency Services Organisations (ESO’s) and support organisations a simple, intuitive process for producing and distributing emergency warnings and alerts. To distribute Alerts and Warnings through standards based channels for receipt and consumption by media and inter-governmental agencies.

17. Warnings – Pre-OSOM Capability to create and issue Alert and Warning messages from field was limited. Process was largely paper based and involved faxing to central location for publishing to website only. Faxes issued to media outlets. Problems with this approach included :  Currency of message information  Relied upon CFA network  Public receives information through a number of means  Visibility across all incidents was not possible  Inconsistent language

18. Field issued alert and warning messages. Alert/warning messages issued in variety of formats and mediums ensuring greater coverage of the public. Visibility across agencies is now possible ensuring greater operational effectiveness. Benefits realised :  Smaller latency between intelligence being received and public being informed  Standardised language and message construction/format Warnings – Now

19. OSOM Elements Distribution Engine Authoring Engine OSOM Info. Officer SCC/ICC

20. Next Steps Building functionality Convergence Staying grounded

21. Connecting with our communities 2009 – A great leap forward 2010 – On the path to excellence