Victorian State Emergency Management Plan (SEMP)

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What is this about?

The State Emergency Management Plan (SEMP) outlines the emergency management arrangements for Victoria to inform all levels of planning - state, regional and municipal.

The SEMP provides a coordinated and comprehensive approach to emergency management at the state level, containing provisions for the mitigation of, response to and recovery from emergencies and specifies the roles and responsibilities of agencies.

Who is this resource for?

• State Government
• Local Government
• Community Service Organisations
• Non Government Organisations
• Community Recovery Committees

Table of contents

Emergency management at a glance

• Emergency management in Victoria uses common management arrangements to respond to all forms of emergency, and everyone has a role to play.

Introduction

• About the SEMP
• State emergency management priorities
• State strategic governance
• Emergency management tiers
• Shared responsibility
• Risk management
• Volunteers, Volunteering and Volunteerism
• Evaluation and continuous improvement

Emergency management phases

Mitigation

Planning

• State-level planning
• Regional, municipal and community planning

Preparedness

Response

• Readiness
• Command
• Control
• Coordination
• State of disaster
• Relief
• Communication
• Consequence management
• Community connections
• Transition to recovery

Recovery

• Recovery principles
• Recovery outcomes
• Resilient recovery
• Recovery environments
• Recovery escalation

Funding

Emergency management arrangements

Mitigation

Planning

Response

• Response - Class 1 emergency
• Response -Class 2 emergency
• Response -Class 3 emergency

Recovery

• Recovery – Class 1, 2 and 3 emergency