Monash Emergency Management Forum

The Contemporary Emergency Manager and Professionalising the Emergency Management Workforce

Thursday July 1 at Berwick campus

Climate change, natural disasters, terrorism and the threat of pandemic are but a few of the issues that today's emergency manager has to consider. It could be said that from both a human behaviour and a disaster risk perspective our environment is becoming more complex. This poses the question, are we prepared?

Many people who manage emergencies do so in a ‘part-time' capacity. They are taken from their usual jobs to carry out non-routine activities during (and sometimes long after) emergencies. How do we identify these people and how do we ensure that they have the necessary skills to carry out their roles? At the same time, how do we ensure that those paid to carry out emergency management roles on a full time basis maintain their existing skills and where necessary develop new ones in the context of bigger, different, and more frequent emergencies?

Participants will leave the seminar with a clear sense of the directions to be taken to improve the effectiveness of our emergency management efforts.

Presented by the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice.

For more information and to register, visit Cvent website.