This report provides information to support and assist users, whether state or local government officials, NGOs, researchers, or businesses, to better understand the emergency risks that exist in Victoria. It also sets out what is being done about those risks, and sources of further information, in order to better support strategic priority-setting.
Table of contents
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INTRODUCTION
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE, RELIEF AND RECOVERY ARRANGEMENTS IN VICTORIA AND NATIONALLY
- OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY RISKS IN VICTORIA
- The relative risk charts
- Medium and severe impact emergency scenarios
- RISK DESCRIPTIONS
- Bushfire
- Earthquake
- Electricity supply disruption
- Emergency animal disease
- Flood
- Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) emergency
- Heatwave
- Insect Pest Incursion
- Liquid fuel shortage
- Marine Pollution
- Mine Failure
- Pandemic Influenza
- Plant Disease Epidemic
- Storm
- Transport Infrastructure Emergency
- APPENDIXES
- Appendix 1 Descriptive definitions
- Appendix 2 More detail about the risk assessment process and the risk charts
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