Category: Alerts
lake conjola…did the warnings fail?
Residents of the seaside town of Lake Conjola, in NSW, have told ABC 730 that they did not receive...
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Improvements needed to safeguard vulnerable people facing natural and man made hazards.
Submission to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with...
Read MoreLeave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Part three)
The United Nations has a phrase we all need to get used too: ”..leave no-one behind.” How important is that for emergency agencies issuing warnings? It’s a phrase heard frequently at UN meetings around the...
Read MoreAn ethical approach can improve Effective Warnings – but it’s often missing.
Recently I have had an opportunity to discuss with an NGO a forecast heavy rain event, and was reminded that many organisations, including civil society-based NGOs and local government still do not see ”saving lives”...
Read MoreCanada has a new Alert system – which has all the failings of all the others
I’ve noticed that Canada has a new Alert system which includes the electronic media. It’s a welcome step, and I cant understand why it took so long to organise....
Read MoreResearch reinforces what we know about warnings
New research undertaken in Australia relating to bushfires is repeatedly showing that what we know about human behaviour in bushfires isn’t changing. Funny that. Dr Rob Gordon says we use the “reptilian brain”...
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Last week I visited the National Broadcasting Corporation of PNG to discuss with them some aspects of emergency broadcasting. (See here for a quick assessment of natural disaster threat in PNG. This week I will give a...
Read MoreTen years of “emergency broadcasting” in Victoria – now what?
My professional position is as the Manager of Emergency Broadcasting and Community Development for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio division. It was my delight to be able to attend on Friday March 28 an event...
Read MoreDefining “emergency broadcasting”
In the past two weeks I have met a group of people from Germany and talked about the needs of some pacific island states regarding issuing warnings to their community. Issuing warnings in a repetitive way, with useful...
Read MoreAll I had was the radio – the need for radio when the power fails
Rachael Mead lives at Lobethal Road, Basket Range in the low hills outside Adelaide, in South Australia. Her husband was on a Country FIre Service volunteer truck during the unseasonal “Cherryville” bushfire which...
Read MoreThe US National Weather Service considers changing warning language.
Developments in the US National Weather Service might influence the way weather warnings are issued in Australia. In any event discussion about the use of language can inform Australia’s hazard managers as they seek to...
Read MoreWarning sirens to be enhanced in Victoria
(I changed this post 18/12/12) to reflect correspondence from the Victorian Fire Commssioner’s office. ) The Victorian Government in Australia has announced a pilot program to establish sirens in some bushfire prone...
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