@article {bnh-3406, title = {Incident Management Approaches above the Incident Management Team Level in Australia}, journal = {Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management}, volume = {12}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2015}, pages = {101-119}, chapter = {101}, abstract = {

This paper discusses incident management strategies widely used above the incident management team (IMT) level in the four Australian States namely, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland. It begins with an overview of how incident management approaches above the IMT might differ from the local IMT level. By exploring this difference, this paper provides an insight into how emergency management personnel working above or beyond the local IMT level often deal with large scale multiple emergency events and require an understanding of broader problems that they might confront in the future. Then, it provides an outline of how strategic emergency management objectives are addressed in the state level arrangements in aforementioned jurisdictions. Specifically, this includes response orientations, state level emergency management facilities, long term thinking, the management of stakeholder relationships, leadership, and organisational adaptation and capacity building. Later, some of the challenges associated with incident management above the IMT level are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes by discussing the implications of this study to the emergency management sector.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsem-2013-0054}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem.2015.12.issue-1/jhsem-2013-0054/jhsem-2013-0054.xml}, author = {Bhandari, R and Owen, Christine and Cain Trist} } @article {BF-4215, title = {A case study comparing aspects of state level incident management approaches}, year = {2012}, abstract = {

This section provides an overview of the types of state level arrangements typically in place during emergency events. The case examples are from the states of Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland. In the event of a significant emergency (either predicted or in play), a State Emergency Management Team or Committee is formed comprising of multiple agencies for both the response and recovery phases. The fire service agencies are a member of State Emergency Management Team and take the role of the combat agency during major bushfires. State emergency management plans in different jurisdictions describe the arrangements for multi-agency coordination to support combat agency response. State arrangements also make provision for rescue, recovery and the relief of communities affected by emergency events

}, author = {Bhandari, R and Steve Curnin} }