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Incident Management approaches above the Incident Management Team level in Australia
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 17:42 authored by Bhandari, RB, Christine OwenChristine Owen, Trist, CThis 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.
History
Publication title
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency ManagementVolume
12Pagination
101-119ISSN
1547-7355Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbHPlace of publication
GermanyRights statement
Copyright 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbHRepository Status
- Open