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Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan 2018-2023 Seddon Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Improving the resilience of the District to all foreseeable emergency events through the active engagement of communities and the effective integration of support agencies. Contents Glossary of Terms ...................................................................................................1 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................4 1.1 Setting the Scene......................................................................................................... 4 1.2 The Marlborough Context ............................................................................................ 5 1.3 National Context .......................................................................................................... 9 1.4 Marlborough CDEM Vision and Goals ....................................................................... 10 2. Marlborough’s Risk Profile ........................................................................ 11 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 11 2.2 Detailed Risk Analysis ............................................................................................... 12 2.3 Marlborough CDEM Group Environment ................................................................... 18 3. Reducing Marlborough’s Hazard Risks .................................................... 28 3.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 28 3.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 29 3.3 Reducing Hazards Action Plan .................................................................................. 31 4. Community Readiness ............................................................................... 32 4.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 32 4.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 33 4.3 Community Readiness Action Plan ........................................................................... 35 5 CDEM Sector Readiness ............................................................................ 36 5.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 36 5.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 37 5.3 Readiness Action Plan ............................................................................................... 40 6 Response ..................................................................................................... 42 6.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 42 6.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 44 6.3 Response Action Plan ............................................................................................... 52 7 Welfare ......................................................................................................... 54 7.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 54 7.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 55 7.3 Welfare Action Plan ................................................................................................... 58 8. Recovery ...................................................................................................... 59 8.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 59 8.2 Strategic recovery planning ....................................................................................... 59 8.3 Recovery principles and aims .................................................................................... 60 8.4 The values of Marlborough communities. .................................................................. 61 8.5 Determining strategic and community priorities for recovery..................................... 62 8.6 Determining recovery outcomes ................................................................................ 62 8.7 Monitoring and evaluating recovery ........................................................................... 63 8.8 Recovery structure ..................................................................................................... 63 8.9 Recovery Action Plan ................................................................................................ 69 9. Management and Governance ................................................................... 72 9.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 72 9.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 72 9.3 Management and Governance Action Plan ............................................................... 78 10. Organisational Resilience .......................................................................... 79 10.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 79 10.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 79 10.3 Organisational Resilience Action Plan ....................................................................... 79 11. Monitoring and Evaluation ......................................................................... 80 11.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 80 Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2018-2023 CM Ref: 1842944 11.2 Current Arrangements ............................................................................................... 80 11.3 Monitoring and Evaluation Action Plan ...................................................................... 81 Appendix A – Organisations with a Key CDEM Role .......................................... 82 Appendix B – Hazard Summaries ........................................................................ 86 Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2018-2023 CM Ref: 1842944 Glossary of Terms Commonly used terms and abbreviations used throughout the Plan include: 4Rs Four areas of emergency management: Reduction, Readiness, Response and Recovery. Act The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 AF8 Alpine Fault project. A joint project between all South island CDEM Groups and the science fraternity to develop a high level response plan in the event of a M8 earthquake on the Alpine Fault. CAP Corrective Action Plan. CDEM Civil Defence Emergency Management. CDEM Group The collective of Marlborough District Council, lifeline utilities, emergency services and welfare organisations that comprise the collective Marlborough CDEM Group. CEG Coordinating Executive Group established under Section 20 of the Act whose functions include providing advice to the CDEM Group and any sub-groups of the CDEM Group; coordinating 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. CEO Chief Executive Officer. CIMS Coordinated Incident Management System is a framework to assist in effective, efficient and consistent response to an incident/emergency management. Controller The person in charge of an emergency, or an aspect of it. The level of their control is given by the name – National Controller is usually based at the NCMC while the Group Controller is based at the EOC. Declaration A Declaration allows the Controller access to statutory powers with the purpose to grant people the necessary authority to protect life and property in an extraordinary emergency. The rationale for declaring a state of emergency is: An emergency 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
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