Threats and events may include: | industrial and civil unrest infrastructure failures (road, rail, water, telecommunications, etc.) large-scale incidents (such as major weather events, campaign bushfires, flooding, hydrocarbon spills, coastal erosion, drought) major assets left unprotected (such as airports, refineries, nuclear reactor at Lucas heights) major drill and training exercises major events (APEC, olympic games, world youth day, grand prix) natural disaster and weather warnings pandemic disease planned infrastructure outages (water, roads, bridges) terrorist warnings war |
Service delivery may include: | emergency communications centre staffing government and legislative requirements maintaining equipment and vehicles maintaining people skill sets occupational health, safety and welfare (OHSW) requirements peak load staffing public expectation resource availability |
Redistributing resources may include: | alternate routes alternate staffing maintaining skill levels moving people and equipment around mutual aid agreements peak load staffing protecting special risks training transportation use of part-time and volunteer staff |
Coverage gaps may include: | crew shortages equipment and systems failures industrial and civil unrest inter- and intra-agency agreements not complied with infrastructure failures major assets unprotected major event planning major incident activity pandemic disease affecting staff/volunteer availability reduced resource cover specialist resources depleted or unavailable training volunteer availability war |
Response protocols may include: | alarm response protocols changed responses due to external influences climate factors crew changes cross-border responses embassies and consulates inter- and intra-agency requirements mutual aid agreements natural and manufactured disasters response into commonwealth and military installations special risks |
Reserve resources may include: | cross-border resources hired or leased equipment military mothballed resources off-duty staff operational support staff part-time and volunteer staff resources from other agencies senior officers training staff |
Organisational procedures may include: | awards and industrial agreements contracts inter-agency agreements legislation memoranda of understanding (MOUs) mutual aid agreements organisation’s approach to environmental management and sustainability performance indicators qualifications rank structure |