Workshop write up – Research, Data and Information
Posted: March 8, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentHeld: Tuesday 28th February
Facilitator: Mitchell Brown, Area Manager, Manawatu, NZFS
Purpose: give delegates the opportunity to review their organisational Research, Data and Information capability and capacity to support a major event. |
Workshop format: In groups, discuss the role your organisation has and the practical application of research, data and information for supporting emergency management.
Share your organisation’s practical solutions and applications for the 4 R’s of emergency management.
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Group 1 Manawatu Gorge – landslide incident NZTA – engineering knowledge
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Group 2 Tech transfer – fire danger ratings / fire permitsFire safety / education / human behaviour / contestable research Fire protection engineering / evacuation / detection Codes + standards |
Group 3 Advocacy for legislationEvidence to support new codes, standards, SOPsMOUs among agencies |
Readiness
Group 1 | Group 2 Standards – building F. S.Relationships – professional / across agencies Operational procedures Training Building / risk assessment Fire danger ratings + weather = warnings! Decisions on resource deployment |
Group 3 PSAs – Public Service AnnouncementsInspections + enforcement Best practice sharing Training – new technologies Community education |
Response
Group 1 NZTA – contractors / engineersNZFS – incident management MetService Telecom / Vodafone / 2 degrees (mobile networks)
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Group 2 Expert in field – understands fire behaviour patternsDeployment Incident Management Communications Rescue Building safety – site inspection Co-ordination |
Group 3 Co-ordination among agenciesInformation pipeline Social media – collect + monitor + disseminate |
Recovery
Group 1 NZTA- contractorsMedia Regional councils – flood / sediment +TA $$$$ |
Group 2 Fire investigationRecovery of vegetation Data collection on community resilience / social research – leads back to resilience Operational investigations Lessons learned Case studies |
Group 3 Getting community back to normalSourcing information Gathering and analysing info to apply to future Connection people for lessons learned + best practices – experts Archiving info |
Participants hard at work
Photo credit: Mitchell Brown, NZFS.
Well done the Conference committee for a great opportunity to bring key people to the fore in our organisation !!