SES volunteers in WA performing a rescue. Photo: Department of Fire and Emergency Services WA.
Hazard Note 65 covers research that is providing insights and data nationally to help to develop new recruitment and retention strategies for SES volunteers. The study provides the valuable data to better support volunteer recruitment, retention and wellbeing.
Motivations, experiences and emotions: being an SES volunteer
A forum discussion at Queensland University of Technology for the International Day of Disaster Reduction.
How can we substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services? The Hon Craig Crawford, Queensland Minister for Fire and Emergency Services, thinks research can provide the answer. "What we need is research. Research gives us the direction we need to go,” he said.
Building resilience to disaster damage
Spontaneous volunteers with Lismore Helping Hands assisted in the clean up after the 2017 floods in northern NSW. Photo: Lismore Helping Hands
Hazard Note 64 provides research evidence and a tool to better understand spontaneous volunteering and how it comes together. It uses case studies of Samaritan’s Purse after the 2015 Pinery bushfire in South Australia and Lismore Helping Hands after the 2017 NSW floods to show successful deployments of spontaneous volunteers.
Understanding models for spontaneous volunteering
Photo: Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
New research drawing on 14 years of data has been released by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and MFB, with the study providing the valuable data the fire industry needs to develop a national residential fire strategy to reduce preventable residential fire fatalities towards zero.
Landmark study on preventable fire deaths
Vast areas of Australia, particularly the east coast, have an above normal fire potential this season.
The 2019/20 fire season has the potential to be an active season across Australia, following on from a very warm and dry start to the year.
Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: August 2019
Prof Vivienne Tippett, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Chair Dr Katherine Woodthorpe, Dr Katharine Haynes, AFAC CEO Stuart Ellis and Chair of the CRC Advisory Committee Kylie Sproston.
Australian lives are being saved by Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC research, which was recognised with the Cooperative Research Centres Association’s premier award.
National award for warnings research
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Fire suppression activities by Queensland RFS crews. Photo credit: Qld RFS.
10/2019
Journal Article
A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Pr...
Heather Simpson, Ross Bradstock, Owen Price
This project aims to develop knowledge to facilitate evidence based informed decision making in relation to the need for seismic retrofitting, revision of codified design requirement, and insurance policy.
10/2019
Report
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Elisa Lumantarna, Nelson Lam, Hing-Ho Tsang, Emad F. Gad, John Wilson
Failing infrastructure is disastrous during an emergency.
10/2019
Report
Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure ann...
Sujeeva Setunge, Chun Qing Li, Darryn McEvoy, Kevin Zhang, Jane Mullett, Hessam Mohseni, Priyan Mendis, Tuan Ngo, Lihai Zhang, Nilupa Herath, Karu Karunasena, Weena Lokuge, Buddhi Wahalathantri, Dilanthi Amaratunga
A fireman explaining a fire plan to the public. Photo: Country Fire Authority
09/2019
Report
Community engagement techniques toolkit
Barbara Ryan, Kim Johnston, Maureen Taylor
CRC researcher Marta Yebra in a helicopter flying over the Pierces Creek fire. Photo: Marta Yebra.
09/2019
Report
Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts annual report 2018-...
Marta Yebra, Albert van Dijk, Geoffrey J. Cary, Li Zhao, Honghao Zeng
Fire emergency services respond to the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes. Picture: John McCombe, Fire and Emergency New Zealand
09/2019
Report
The value of disaster research: a review of the literatu...
Ken Strahan, Adriana Keating, John Handmer
A controlled burn. Photo: Brett Cirulis.
09/2019
Report
Determining threshold conditions for extreme bushfire be...
Alex Filkov, Thomas Duff, Trent Penman
A pre-conference workshop for the AustralasianNatural Hazards Management Conference in Canberra earlier this year. Photo: Lisa Gibbs.
09/2019
Report
Recovery capitals: applying a community capitals framewo...
Lisa Gibbs, Phoebe Quinn, David Johnston, Denise Blake, Emily Campbell, Kate Brady
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The Disaster Inquiries Database houses 300 inquiries into Australian emergency management.
10 Oct 2019
Inquiries housed in database
Containing a catalogue of 300 inquiries and reviews across all states and territories, the Disaster Inquiries Database is the outcome of a CRC project that brings...
A forum discussion at Queensland University of Technology for the International Day of Disaster Reduction.
15 Oct 2019
Building resilience to disaster damage
The latest CRC research is available online now.
09 Oct 2019
New online - October 2019
Prof Mary O'Kane delivering the 2019 Dr Laurie Hammond Oration at AFAC19, Melbourne
08 Oct 2019
R&D in Australia – is it delivering?
From left to right: Stacey McInnes, Ryan Blake and Richard Cassidy from the Household Resilience Program.
08 Oct 2019
CRC backed program receives state award
SMERF provides web-based fire maps across Australia's northern savannas and rangelands.
08 Oct 2019
Savanna-wide fire mapping
CFA and CSIRO burning croplands as part of a research project to look at how fire behaves. Photo: CFA
03 Oct 2019
A guide to cropland fire reconstruction – project update
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Assessing the value of disaster...
10 Sep 2019
Much of the value produced by research is not easily valued in the marketplace nor easily measured.
Dr Ken Strahan
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New school: a modern approach to...
04 Sep 2019
When children have the chance to understand hazards and identify local vulnerabilities and capacities, they can play a central...
Dr Briony Towers
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Grim fire season looms but many...
03 Sep 2019
Bushfires are predicted to be worse than normal across much of Australia this summer but research shows many people, especially...
Dr Richard Thornton
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Our new global plant water status...
23 Aug 2019
CRC researcher Dr Marta Yebra from the Australian National University reflects on the effort behind her research and the rewards...
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