Emergency Management Team  
                      Arrangements 
                                
                  -- for all emergencies -- 
         
         
         
                      (December 2014) 
                            
         
         
         
            Emergency Management Commissioner 
         
                  in conjunction with the government member agencies of the  
                       State Emergency Management Team 
         
         
         
                
         
         
         
         
         
         
                                
                          TRIM ID CD/14/458000* 
                     
                     
                    Document history                
                     
                        Date                Summary of Changes                               Author 
                    May 2009       Practice  Note  –  Emergency  Management  Office of the Emergency Services 
                                   Team                                      Commissioner 
                    July 2013      Update, reformat and retitle              Fire Services Commissioner 
                    October 2014   Update  to  align  the  document  with  the  Emergency Management Commissioner 
                                   Emergency  Management  Act  2013,  the 
                                   updated State Emergency Response Plan and 
                                   to  include  continued  operations  across  the 
                                   emergency management phases of readiness, 
                                   response and recovery. 
                    December       Update  to  IEMT  and  REMT  templates  to  Emergency Management Commissioner 
                    2014           include Traffic Management as standing EMT 
                                   agenda item. 
                     
                    An      electronic    copy     of     this     document      can      be     found     at 
                    http://www.emv.vic.gov.au/procedures/incident-management/ 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                       
                       
                      TABLE OF CONTENTS 
                       
                      1    Introduction to the document ............................................................................................. 1 
                        1.1      Purpose .................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.2      Authority ................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.3      Scope ....................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.4      Context ..................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.5      Incorporating future policy and legislative change ................................................... 1 
                      2    State strategic control priorities .......................................................................................... 2 
                      3    The role of the EMT ........................................................................................................... 2 
                        3.1      Three tiers of EMT.................................................................................................... 2 
                        3.2      The purpose of an EMT ........................................................................................... 2 
                        3.3      The benefits of an EMT ............................................................................................ 3 
                        3.4      Forming an EMT....................................................................................................... 3 
                        3.5      The level of involvement of the EMT ........................................................................ 4 
                      4    EMT structure ..................................................................................................................... 5 
                        4.1      EMT Chair ................................................................................................................ 5 
                           4.1.1    Chair for each phase of emergency management .............................................. 5 
                           4.1.2    Duties of the Chair ............................................................................................... 5 
                        4.2      EMT membership ..................................................................................................... 6 
                           4.2.1    Agencies to be represented ................................................................................. 6 
                           4.2.2    Selection of representatives ................................................................................ 6 
                           4.2.3    Inclusion of local government .............................................................................. 7 
                           4.2.4    Inclusion of key business or critical infrastructure operators ............................... 7 
                           4.2.5    Community representation ................................................................................... 7 
                           4.2.6    Relationship between EMT and emergency planning committees ...................... 7 
                        4.3      EMT membership at each tier .................................................................................. 7 
                           4.3.1    IEMT membership ................................................................................................ 7 
                           4.3.2    SEMT and REMT membership ............................................................................ 8 
                      5    EMT operations .................................................................................................................. 8 
                        5.1      Concept of operations .............................................................................................. 8 
                        5.2      Outputs ..................................................................................................................... 9 
                        5.3      Linkage with existing emergency management plans ............................................. 9 
                        5.4      Communications between the EMT tiers ............................................................... 10 
                        5.5      EMT exercising ....................................................................................................... 10 
                        5.6      EMT debriefing ....................................................................................................... 10 
                      Appendix A - Summary of the focus of EMT at each tier ........................................................ 11 
                      Appendix B – Incident EMT template ...................................................................................... 12 
                      Appendix C – Regional (or Area-of-Operations) EMT template .............................................. 13 
                      Appendix D – State EMT template .......................................................................................... 14 
                       
           
          Appendix E - Case studies of EMT operating at different tiers ............................................... 15 
           Case study of an IEMT (small scale event at incident scene) ............................................. 15 
           Case study of an IEMT (in Incident Control Centre) ............................................................ 15 
           Case study of a Regional EMT ............................................................................................ 16 
           Case study of an State EMT ................................................................................................ 17