2016-09-06 S&O Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 3 - Noosa Local Disaster Management Plan

The aim of these plans will be to:
(a)    encourage people and businesses to prepare themselves, their properties and their
       clients for disasters such as flooding, severe storm and high wind events
(b)    improve target audiences’ safety awareness levels and safety behaviours during a
       disaster or emergency
(c)    encourage people to be aware of, and care for their neighbours in the immediate
       aftermath of a disaster.

4.6      Education and training
Education and training for those involved in disaster and emergency management work is a
key preparedness and capability building activity.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services has a responsibility identified in The Act and
State Plan to ensure that persons performing functions under The Act in relation to disaster
operations are appropriately trained. QFES have developed a disaster management training
framework identifying courses that are to be undertaken by those persons.
Each member agency is responsible for ensuring that staff undertaking disaster and
emergency management work have appropriate training for their roles, in particular those
courses identified in the training framework.
The Local Group Disaster Management Officer and Council support will assist with
identifying and supporting attendance at relevant training for Local Group members and the
Local Disaster Coordination Centre team. This will be undertaken in consultation with the
QFES Area Director.

4.6.1 Accredited training
This plan identifies a preference for vocational education and training that is accredited or is
a qualification or individual units of competency under the Australian Qualifications
Framework (AQF). The AQF is the system that identifies the various levels of educational
qualifications in Australia. Disaster and emergency management specific training is
contained within the “Public Safety Training Package”.
Additional training is from:
     QFES provided courses from the Queensland Disaster Management Training
      Framework
     Emergency Management Australia Courses (Accredited Training)
     QFES Regional College of Disaster Management.
See http://www.em.gov.au/Education/Pages/default.aspx
Courses from the public safety training package provided for example by QFES (FIRE) or
SES trainers or other training providers.

4.6.2 Training for work in disaster coordination centres
To assist with the effective coordination of disaster operations each lead agency is to have
an appropriate number of staff trained at the appropriate skill and competency level to work
in a disaster coordination centre.
Appropriate courses for working in a disaster coordination centre include but are not
exclusive to:
     Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS) system course. AIIMS
      courses are 2 days (theory program with some scenario work, non-accredited). QFES
      (FIRE) (through training and emergency management) and council have some limited

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