Topic conclusion

Summary

In this topic we have reviewed the hazards likely to affect your community and identified those organisations and agencies likely to respond should a disaster/emergency event occur. We have also identified those agencies who responded to your selected emergency event and discussed their roles and responsibilities related to that response.

Assignment preparation

You should now be able to carry out research into your selected disaster/emergency event and detail the major organisations involved in the response to the event and their respective roles and responsibilities.

Assignment Activity 7.6   Using the information you have collected from the activities in this topic, commence to draft the Roles and Responsibilities section of your major report (Assignment 2). Use the assignment guidelines and marking sheet as a guide to developing your discussions in this section. Remember to save your work regularly.