Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan emergency disease or plant pest control program
- Identify effective strategies to support emergency disease or plant pest control
- Ensure all components of emergency disease or plant pest control program comply with relevant standards and protocols, a jurisdiction's nationally approved response plan, relevant state, territory and commonwealth legislation and emergency management principles
- Seek and use expert advice to identify the source of emergency disease or plant pest and gauge its likely spread
- Identify declared areas of presence of emergency disease or plant pest in line with expert advice and available evidence
- Develop plans to effectively and efficiently control emergency disease or plant pest
- Submit plans to appropriate authorities for approval
- Identify likely developments and consequences of emergency disease or plant pest outbreak and advise appropriate personnel according to established lines of command and control
- Oversee emergency disease or plant pest control program
- Implement and monitor emergency disease or plant pest control plans
- Monitor the recording and dissemination of information to ensure compliance with standards and protocols
- Send, receive and act on reports according to relevant standards and protocols
- Brief relevant organisations, agencies and personnel in relation to management of emergency disease or plant pest
- Monitor and review the emergency disease or plant pest control program
- Monitor emergency disease or plant pest control strategies continually to ensure that they are achieving the intended outcomes
- Amend emergency disease or plant pest control plans as appropriate in line with expert advice, standards and protocols
- Monitor resource requirements continually to ensure strategies are achieved
- Revise emergency disease or plant pest control program