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Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Plan 2012-17 CLUTHA DISTRICT CIVIL DEFENCE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2012‐17 This Plan became operative on 1 November 2012, and replaces the previous Clutha District Operational Plan 2004 Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 GLOSSARY OF TERMS 4 1 INTRODUCTION 6 1.1 INTRODUCTION 6 1.2 BACKGROUND 6 1.3 INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT 7 1.4 THE LOCAL SETTING 7 1.5 THE OTAGO CDEM GROUP 7 1.6 THE CLUTHA DISTRICT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE 9 1.7 CONTEXT OF THIS PLAN 11 2 CLUTHA DISTRICT’S RISK PROFILE 13 2.1 CLUTHA DISTRICT ENVIRONMENTS 13 2.1.1 Social Environment 13 2.1.2 Built Environment 14 2.1.3 Economic Environment 15 2.1.4 Natural Environment 16 2.2 CLUTHA DISTRICT HAZARDSCAPE 17 2.3 IMPLICATIONS FOR CLUTHA DISTRICT CDEM 18 3 REDUCTION 20 3.1 INTRODUCTION 20 3.2 REDUCTION ACTIVITIES 21 4 READINESS 23 4.1 INTRODUCTION 23 4.2 COMMUNITY READINESS ACTIVITIES 24 4.2.1 Awareness and Preparedness 24 4.2.2 Community Participation 24 4.3ORGANISATIONAL READINESS 25 4.3.1 Staff Capacity and Capability 25 4.3.2 Operational Planning Groups 25 4.3.3 Plans and Procedures 26 4.4 WARNING SYSTEMS 27 4.5 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS 29 5 RESPONSE 30 5.1 INTRODUCTION 30 5.2 LEVELS OF EMERGENCY 30 5.3 EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTRES 32 5.3.1 Activation and Notification 33 5.4 EOC STAFF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 33 5.4.1 Stages of Response 36 5.4 OTHER RESPONSE FUNCTIONS AND PROCESSES 37 5.5.1 Lead and Support Agencies 37 5.5.2 Declaration 37 5.5.3 Volunteer Management 38 5.5.4 Evacuation 38 5.5.5 Monitoring and Debrief 39 5.5.6 Support from Outside the District 39 6 RECOVERY 40 6.1 INTRODUCTION 40 6.2 TRANSITION FROM RESPONSE TO RECOVERY 40 Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 2 6.3 STRUCTURE AND STAFFING ARRANGEMENTS 41 6.3.1 Recovery Management Structure 41 6.4 RECOVERY PROCESS 42 7 MONITORING AND EVALUATION 44 7.1 INTRODUCTION 44 7.2 CDEM PROGRAMME AND TARGETS 44 TABLES Table 1: Context of CDEM Plan provisions 11 Table 2: Employment and GDP contributions 15 15 Table 3: Monitoring and alerting agencies 28 28 Table 4: Levels of emergency 31 31 Table 5 Key tasks 45 45 FIGURES Figure 1: Clutha District Map 8 Figure 2: Active fault lines 16 16 Figure 3 CIMS structure 32 32 Figure 4 Recovery structure 42 42 Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 3 GLOSSARY OF TERMS Commonly used terms and abbreviations used throughout the Plan include: 4Rs: Four areas of emergency management: Reduction, Readiness, Response and Recovery. The Act: The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 CDEM: Civil Defence Emergency Management CDEM Group: Established under section 12 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002. Unless otherwise stated in the Plan, it refers to the Otago CDEM Group, a joint standing committee with membership comprising the Mayors from the Central Otago District, Clutha District, Dunedin City, Queenstown Lakes District and Waitaki District Councils and the Chairperson of the Otago Regional Council. CEG: Co‐ordinating Executive Group Established under Section 20 of the Act. Functions include providing advice to the CDEM Group and any sub‐groups of the CDEM Group; co‐ordinating and overseeing as appropriate the implementation of decisions of the Group by the Group CDEM Office or by individual members; and overseeing the implementation, development, maintenance, monitoring and evaluation of this Plan. CIMS: Co‐ordinated Incident Management System. Establishes a framework to assist in effective, efficient and consistent response to an incident/emergency management. Declaration: A Declaration allows the Controller and others access to statutory powers with the purpose to grant people the necessary authority to protect life and property in extraordinary emergency events. The rationale for declaring a state of emergency is: • an emergency event has occurred or may occur; • the safety of the public or property is endangered; • loss of life, injury, illness, or distress may be caused; or, • usual services are inadequate to deal with the emergency. Emergency: As defined under the Act: 1. Is the result of any happening, whether natural or otherwise, including, without limitation, any explosion, earthquake, eruption, tsunami, land movement, flood, storm, tornado, cyclone, serious fire, leakage or spillage of any dangerous gas or substance, technological failure, infestation, plague, epidemic, failure of or disruption to an emergency service or a lifeline utility, or actual or imminent attack or warlike act; and 2. Causes or may cause loss of life or injury or illness or distress or in any way endangers the safety of the public or property in New Zealand or any part of New Zealand and 3. Cannot be dealt with by emergency services, or otherwise requires a significant and co‐ordinated response under the Act. Emergency Services: The New Zealand Police, New Zealand Fire Service, National Rural Fire Authority, rural fire authorities and hospital and health services. EOP: Emergency Operating Procedure refers to a document describing a formally established set of operational procedures that are the commonly accepted method for performing certain emergency management tasks. GECC/EOC: Group Emergency Coordination Centre / Emergency Operations Centre. An established facility where the response to an event may be managed and supported. ICP: Incident Control Point. A facility where site response to an incident is managed and controlled. Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 4 Lead Agency: The organisation with the legislative authority; or because of its expertise and resources, agreed authority; primarily responsible for control of an incident Lifeline Utility: An entity named in or described in section 1 of the Act. Within Otago, these include Radio New Zealand, Television New Zealand, airports, port companies, gas, electricity, water, waste water, sewerage, telecommunications, roads, fuel, and rail industries. Local Authority: Means a Regional Council or District/City Council. Other Acronyms include: CDC: Clutha District Council CODC: Central Otago District Council DCC: Dunedin City Council LTP: A Council’s Long Term Plan MCDEM: Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management NZTA: New Zealand Transport Agency ORC: Otago Regional Council QLDC: Queenstown Lakes District Council WDC: Waitaki District Council Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 5 1 INTRODUCTION This section provides the context and background of the plan including an overview of the integrated risk management approach and a picture of the local setting. The section also describes the structure and governance of the Otago CDEM Group that Clutha District is a part of. At the end of the section there is a description of the Clutha District CDEM Work Programme and methods for monitoring and evaluating the achievement of CDEM objectives. 1.1 INTRODUCTION The Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Plan is part of a hierarchy of Plans which also includes the National CDEM Plan and the Otago Group CDEM Plan. The purpose of this structure is to enable the effective and efficient management of hazards and risks within the Clutha District, and to ensure a coordinated approach for hazards and risks beyond the District. The Clutha District CDEM Plan sets out the local emergency management activities and operational arrangements for the district, and aims to: • Increase awareness of the hazards and associated risks in the Clutha District. • Strengthen relationships between agencies involved in CDEM at a local level. • Encourage cooperative planning and action between local emergency services, agencies and organisations as well as the community. • Contribute to the Otago CDEM Group Plan by delivering a more coordinated, effective and consistent CDEM programme. • Outline the arrangements for the Clutha District using an integrated risk management approach addressing Reduction, Readiness, Response and Recovery. This Plan has been primarily developed for the CDEM and Emergency Services sector, which will use and be directly affected by the Plan. However, the Plan is also for other individuals and groups that could at times be involved in CDEM activities, and of course for the general public who should benefit from the plan. 1.2 BACKGROUND The CDEM Act 2002 states that local authorities must be a member of a CDEM Group (section 12) and must plan and provide for civil defence emergency management within their district (section 64). The Clutha District is part of the Otago CDEM Group, and as a member a key responsibility is the development and implementation of a comprehensive local CDEM Plan, which is consistent with the Group Plan. The Plan is NOT the document that CDEM personnel will use to guide their actions during an emergency. That role will be filled by various local and event‐specific plans and standard operating procedures. However, this Plan DOES set out the framework that emergency responses will work under, and will guide the work programmes to ensure that the information, resources and documentation are there when needed in an emergency. Clutha District Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2012‐2017 Page 6 Importantly, the Plan also establishes the relationships that will be called upon when an event goes beyond the scope or capacity of an individual agency. This is the second edition of this Clutha District CDEM Plan, and replaces the previous version (Clutha District Operational Plan 2004). It has been developed in consultation with the CDEM Group members, CDEM and Emergency Services staff, and other key agencies, and follows a process of consultation and review. 1.3 INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT Civil Defence Emergency Management in New Zealand uses an integrated risk management approach when dealing with hazards.
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