Workshop write up – Research, Data and Information

Held: Tuesday 28^th 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.

Reduction

Group 1 Manawatu Gorge – landslide incident NZTA – engineering knowledge DIA – landslide events GNS – geological info NZFS – incident (+AN +NZP) Territorial authorities – photos / satellite LINZ – Regional councils

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)

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.

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