2015-06-23 I&S Agenda - Item 5 - Local Disaster Management Plan - Attachment 1

Descriptor   People              Environment        Economy               Governance           Social/Community        Infrastructure

Major        Multiple fatalities Severe             Significant financial Governing body      Reduced quality of life Mid to long term failure
             or permanent        impairment or      loss requiring major absorbed with        within community,       of significant
             incapacities (up to loss of            changes in            managing the        significant loss or     infrastructure and
             1 per 100 000).     ecosystem          business strategy to event, public        damage to objects of service delivery
             Regional health     functions          (partly) cover loss, administration       cultural significance,  affecting large parts of
             care system         affecting many     significant           struggles to        impacts beyond          the community, external
             stressed. External species or          disruptions across provide merely         emotional and           support required.
             resources required landscapes,         industry sectors      critical services,  psychological capacity
             to contain and      progressive        leading to multiple loss of public        in large parts of the
             resolve the         environmental      business failures     confidence in       community. Majority
             incident. Large     damage.            and loss of           governance,         of services
             number of people                       employment.           national level      unavailable to
             displaced for >24                                            media coverage.     community.
             hours.                                                       State level support
                                                                          required.

Catastrophic Widespread loss of Widespread          Unrecoverable         Governing bodies     Community unable to Long term failure of
             lives (at least 1 per severe           financial losses.     unable to manage     support itself,        significant infrastructure
             10 000), regional     impairment or    Multiple major        the event,           widespread loss of     and service delivery
             health care system loss of             industries in the     ineffective public   objects of cultural    affecting all parts of the
             unable to cope,       ecosystem        region seriously      administration,      significance, impacts community, ongoing
             large displacement functions across    threatened or         loss of public       beyond emotional and external support at large
             of people beyond species and           disrupted for         order, widespread    psychological capacity scale required.
             regional capacity     landscapes,      foreseeable future.   unrest and crime.    in all parts of the
             to manage.            irrecoverable    Asset destruction     State or national    community, long term
                                   environmental    across industry       intervention         denial of basic
                                   damage. Total    sectors leading to    required.            community services.
                                   incongruence     widespread            Widespread
                                   with preferred   business failures     international
                                   elements of      and loss of           media coverage.
                                   place.           employment.



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