2017-10-10 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 7 - Noosa Local Disaster Management Plan 2018

Public Safety Preservation Act 1986
If at any time a commissioned officer of the Queensland Police Service is satisfied on reasonable
grounds that an emergency situation has arisen or is likely to arise, the commissioned officer may
declare that an emergency situation exists in respect of an area specified by the officer.

Reconstruction
Actions taken to re-establish a community after a period of rehabilitation subsequent to a disaster.
Actions would include construction of permanent housing, restoration of all services, and complete
resumption of the pre-disaster state.

Recovery
The coordinated process of supporting affected communities, families and individuals in the
reconstruction of the built environment and the restoration of their emotional, social and economic
wellbeing, as well as the natural environment.

Rehabilitation
The operations and decisions taken after a disaster with a view to restoring a stricken community
to its former living conditions, while encouraging and facilitating the necessary adjustments to the
changes caused by the disaster.

Relief
The provision of immediate shelter, life support and human needs of persons affected by, or
responding to, an emergency. It includes the establishment, management and provision of
services to emergency relief centres.

Residual risk
The level of risk remaining after implementation of a risk treatment.

Resilience
A measure of how quickly a system recovers from failures.

Response
Measures taken in anticipation of, during and immediately after an emergency to ensure its effects
are minimised.

Resources
Includes people, personnel or staffing, food, any horse or animal, vehicle, vessel, aircraft, plant
apparatus, implement, earthmoving equipment, construction equipment or other equipment of any
kind or any means of supplying want or need.

Risk
The chance of something happening that may have an impact on the safety and wellbeing of your
community. It includes risk as an opportunity as well as a threat and is measured in terms of
consequences and likelihood.

Risk identification
The process of identifying what can happen, why and how.

Risk management
The culture, processes and structures that are directed towards realising potential opportunities
while managing adverse effects.

Risk reduction
Actions taken to lessen the likelihood, negative consequences, or both, associated with a risk.

Risk treatment

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