AFAC's Public Safety Mobile Broadband Position Now Available
Date Published: 2012-02-15
AFAC Public Safety Mobile Broadband Position.More about AFAC's Public Safety Mobile Broadband Position Now Available.
New Public Information Officer Tabard Required by AIIMS 2011 Revision Now Available
Date Published: 2011-12-23
Purchase the set of 5 tabards for AIIMS.More about New Public Information Officer Tabard Required by AIIMS 2011 Revision Now Available.
MEDIA RELEASE: Dräger sign for another Three Years
Date Published: 2011-12-21
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Flames and Firebrands at research Advisory Forums
Date Published: 2011-12-13
Around 60 Bushfire CRC researchers, students, AFAC staff and end-users gathered at University House at the Australian National University for the fifth meeting of the Research Advisory Forum at the end of last month.
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Finalisation of the Review of the Fire Qualifications
Date Published: 2011-12-13
The Fire qualifications have been submitted to Government Skills Australia (GSA) on 21 October in preparation for endorsement. While there will still be opportunity for further national comment in the forthcoming weeks, the review of the Fire Qualifications by AFAC and the UFUA has been completed.
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AIIMS Training Resources Kit
Date Published: 2011-12-13
The review of the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management SystemTM (AIIMS) Revised Edition 2011 has been completed, with the latest edition released by AFAC in October 2011.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Wild Weather Teaching Resource Wins National Award
Date Published: 2011-12-12
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Review of the 2010–11 Victoria Flood Warnings & Response: Final report
Date Published: 2011-12-08
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MEDIA RELEASE: Prescribed Burning an Essential Tool in Managing Community Safety
Date Published: 2011-11-25
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A Guide to Resource Sharing (Mutual AId) 2011
Date Published: 2011-11-07
Purpose
This guide has been developed to provide advice about matters that may be taken into account when agencies are considering entering into agreements for the sharing of resources intra and inter-jurisdiction.
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SES National Awareness Week
Date Published: 2011-11-07
State Emergency Services (SES) across Australia will be painting the country orange for National SES Week, 7-13 November, to recognise the thousands of SES volunteers who serve their community in times of storms, floods and other emergencies.More about SES National Awareness Week.
Wild Weather Teaching Resource Wins Award
Date Published: 2011-10-24
The Li’L Larikkins Natural Hazards Children’s Program Teacher’s Resource has won the Best Primary Education Video Resource at the ATOM 2011 Awards. The ATOM Awards, established and run by the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), recognise excellence in film, television and animation.More about Wild Weather Teaching Resource Wins Award.
Emergency Communications Seminar – how well did it work?
Date Published: 2011-10-13
In preparation for their group meeting earlier this year, the AFAC Chief Information Officer’s Group decided to hold an open seminar on emergency communications and how well they worked during recent disasters. Open to AFAC member agencies and other organisations to attend, the Seminar focused on how high volumes of emergency information was received, used and dispatched during the disasters in New Zealand and Australia early in 2011.
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Historic Reports Published by the State Library of Victoria
Date Published: 2011-09-12
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Statement and Updates to VIC Coroner’s Approach to Black Saturday Fatalities
Date Published: 2011-09-12
On February 16, 2009 a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the causes and circumstances of the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009 which claimed the lives of 173 people and devastated so many communities.
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Doctrine Master Class Series 2011
Date Published: 2011-09-05
The early-2011 round of Doctrine Master Classes has now concluded with a total of almost 70 participants from 9 agencies over 3 states.
AFAC would like to thank Mr Justin Kelly (Principal Consultant, Noetic) and Noetic Solutions Ltd for their assistance with sharing knowledge and assisting build capability in this area.
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A Shared Responsibility: The Report of the Perth Hills Bushfire February 2011 Review
Date Published: 2011-08-18
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Understanding Floods: Questions and answers
Date Published: 2011-07-20
Understanding Floods: Questions and Answers (UFQA) explains fundamental scientific and engineering concepts regarding floods, in clear and simple language.More about Understanding Floods: Questions and answers .
Industry Collaborative Purchasing Briefing on 292 Contract
Date Published: 2011-07-01
The NSW 292 contract was launched at the Sydney Masonic Centre with representatives of the manufacturing and supply industry for fire and emergency service equipment.More about Industry Collaborative Purchasing Briefing on 292 Contract.
Nominations Now Open for 2011 Knowledge Innovation Award
Date Published: 2011-06-23
Nominations are now being received for the AFAC/Motorola Knowledge Innovation Award. This is the second year this award has been offered and comprises two categories:More about Nominations Now Open for 2011 Knowledge Innovation Award.
Queen’s Birthday 2011 Honours Awards
Date Published: 2011-06-17
Congratulations to all the agency members who were recognised as 2011 Queens Birthday Honours recipients. It is most pleasing to see that dedicated service and commitment has been acknowledged through these Awards.
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Steering Committee on National Broadband Capability for Police and Emergency Services
Date Published: 2011-06-07
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has just released the terms of reference for a multi-jurisdictional Steering Committee to develop a plan to equip Australia’s public safety agencies with reliable and robust mobile broadband capability.
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AFAC Council Agrees on Consultation for Potential Professionalisation Scheme
Date Published: 2011-05-31
At the AFAC April Council meeting the green light was given to undertake preliminary consultation within its member agencies and key stakeholders on a professionalisation scheme.
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Nominations Now Open for 2011 Laurie Lavelle Award
Date Published: 2011-05-19
Nominations are now being received for the annual Laurie Lavelle Award. Get your nomination form here. The objective of the award is to recognise the efforts of an individual who has undertaken a role within an AFAC member agency that has contributed significantly to enhancing the knowledge or skills, operations, performance or public profile in the emergency services sector in Australasia.More about Nominations Now Open for 2011 Laurie Lavelle Award.
Sharing Risk: Financing Australia’s disaster resilience
Date Published: 2011-05-18
Special Report Issue 37 from the Australian Strategic Policy InstituteMore about Sharing Risk: Financing Australia’s disaster resilience.
Submission to the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry
Date Published: 2011-05-17
AFAC’s interest in the outcome of this Commission of Inquiry is to optimise future conditions for AFAC members to manage flood emergencies as they arise. To that end, our submissions focus on those areas which have the potential to improve both community safety and flood response operations.
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Work Health and Safety: New laws, are you ready?
Date Published: 2011-05-17
With new Model Work Health and Safety laws coming into effect in January, it is time for organisations to ensure they know how these changes will affect them.
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Scania Australia Continues Support for AFAC Annual Conference
Date Published: 2011-05-16
Roger McCarthy, Scania Australia Managing Director, today signed on as major sponsor for the AFAC and Bushfire CRC conference 2011. This is the fourth year Scania has supported the event, this year to be held in Sydney at the end of August.
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Fire and Emergency Service Volunteers Acknowledged During National Volunteers Week
Date Published: 2011-05-11
AFAC acknowledges and thanks all volunteers of our member agencies around Australasia for their commitment and dedication.
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Fundamentals of Doctrine: A best practice guide
Date Published: 2011-05-10
AFAC has released the publication Fundamentals of Doctrine: A Best Practice Guide available from the members area of the AFAC Knowledge Web.More about Fundamentals of Doctrine: A best practice guide.
AFAC and Bushfire CRC Launch Annual Conference in Sydney
Date Published: 2011-05-05
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AFAC and Bushfire CRC Launch Annual Conference in Sydney
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Children's Disaster Awareness Program Delivered to Schools
Date Published: 2011-05-05
Attorney-General Robert McClelland today said every Australian primary school will receive a new education kit to teach children about how to prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
Download a print copy of this press release from the office of Hon. Robert McClelland MP, Attorney-General.
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2011 PIFSA Executive Planning Meeting
Date Published: 2011-05-02
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Social Networking Media Paper
Date Published: 2011-03-24
AFAC recently monitored social networking media channels during the QLD and subsequent VIC floods.
For a period of approximately 2 weeks, varying levels of information distribution occurred though social networking media channels and some emerging issues for AFAC members were raised as a result.
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Development of AIIMS 4th Edition
Date Published: 2011-03-10
AFAC is conducting the review of the AIIMS 3rd Edition and the development of the 4th Edition, working closely with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA), fire and emergency services and other users.
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Development of Common Alerting Protocol: Australian Profile (CAP-AP) as an Australian Government Standard
Date Published: 2011-03-10
Since FY2009-2010, the Attorney-General’s Department has undertaken the CAP project; To develop an Australian Government standard for the Common Alerting Protocol and have recently announced positive progress made. In their recent brief, AGD have outlined the current aim to finalise the development of CAP-AP requirements in order to move forward to the next key milestone in April to develop the CAP-AP standards document. Matthew Smith (NSWRFS) has been providing AFAC representation on the consultation group of the Common Alerting Protocol and continues to uphold AFAC standards in the process.
Access to Communications Spectrum for Public Safety Agencies
Date Published: 2011-02-11
Over the Christmas period AFAC worked with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) and the Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) to have a joint voice in relation to the issue of public safety agencies having dedicated digital dividend spectrum to ensure sufficient broadband data networks exist to support the critical business needs of emergency services.
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Australia Day 2011 Honours Awards
Date Published: 2011-02-04
Congratulations to all the agency members who were recognised as 2011Australia Day Honours recipients. It is most pleasing to see that dedicated service and commitment has been acknowledged through these awards.More about Australia Day 2011 Honours Awards.
Recent Vote on ISO 16073 Has Been Approved
Date Published: 2011-01-28
AFAC Standards Manager, Russell Shephard, is chairman of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) TC/94 SC/14 Working Group Committee 3; Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Wildland Firefighters.
The committee includes representation from an array of international countries and is the body responsible for developing international PPE standards for wildland firefighters (ISO 16073).
Shephard reports, ‘The committee has worked the past six years developing the first PPE ISO standards for wildland firefighter use. These standards include head-to-foot protection with a focus on compatibility across all PPE equipment’.
The standard's final draft incorporates input from AFAC's PPE Group, which provided a significant amount of insight as subsequent drafts were developed en route to the final version.
A final ballot for ISO 16073 was released on November 26, 2010 and closed on January 26, 2011.
The ballot has been successful, with the required number of countries supporting ISO 16073.
This is the first international standard that encompasses use of all PPE equipment for wildland firefighters.
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What to do BEFORE, DURING and AFTER a flood regarding rooftop solar electricity panels
Date Published: 2011-01-12
Be careful with rooftop solar electricity panels. An information guide, produced by Sharp - Australia, about rooftop solar electricity panels has been provided to ensure precautions are taken should any rooftop solar energy systems be impacted by flood. The Clean Energy Council of Australia has been in touch with AFAC to share this information.More about What to do BEFORE, DURING and AFTER a flood regarding rooftop solar electricity panels.
NT Fire and Rescue Service Acting Executive Appointments
Date Published: 2011-01-04
The following changes affecting NTFRS executive positions will commence from 8 January 2011 as a result of the Director’s resignation.
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New Name for NSW Fire Brigades
Date Published: 2011-01-04
From 1 January 2011 the NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB) will change its name to Fire and Rescue NSW.More about New Name for NSW Fire Brigades.
Knowledge Web Welcomes New Funnelback Search Engine
Date Published: 2010-12-17
AFAC is pleased to announce the arrival of a new, significantly more powerful, helpful and easier to use and interpret search engine for our Knowledge Web.More about Knowledge Web Welcomes New Funnelback Search Engine.
New Chief Officer for South Australia CFS
Date Published: 2010-12-16
An announcement has been released confirming that Greg Nettleton has been appointed to the position of Chief Officer of the South Australia Country Fire Service.
