Activity 1.3
Read
Reading 1:	Caring for the community in disasters:  The short-term aspects

During your reading consider how the situation might have been better handled.
This activity is based on the Brisbane Floods of January 1974, and provides you with an opportunity to examine this inefficiency or inactivity in response.

Lessons from the Brisbane floods
On a sheet of paper I want you to list those problems that you believe could have been overcome if risk assessment/ hazard analysis, emergency management planning and standard operating procedures had been in place? 

	Risk Assessment/ Hazard Analysis:
	Emergency Management Planning:
	SOP:

List those organisations that you think may have benefited from having emergency management plans and SOP?

	Plans:
	SOP:	

Accepting that very little planning had been done in Brisbane prior to the floods, do you think that some of the problems might have been overcome if exercises had been conducted?  If so, briefly list in what way(s) would they have benefited the organisations involved?

How would more adequate training have improved the response and in what areas might training have been appropriate?