The system used to register evacuated and injured persons, in order to inform searching family and friends of their location.

Accommodation may be provided to households and individuals displaced by an emergency event in hotels, motels, caravan parks houses, and flats or similar. The timeframe usually ranges from days to weeks. In some cases emergency accommodation may transition into interim accommodation. Emergency accommodation is organised through MEMPlans and usually provided by community, business or government organisations, although people often find their own accommodation with family or friends.

An emergency area declared under s. 36A of the Act, being, in the opinion of the most senior police officer in attendance, on the advice of the control agency, an area from which it is necessary to exclude persons due to the size, nature or location of an emergency, so as to ensure public safety, security of evacuated premises, or the safety of, or prevention of obstruction, hindrance or interference to, persons engaging in emergency activity. [Act]

The organisation and management of resources for dealing with all aspects of emergencies. [Act] Emergency management involves the plans, structures and arrangements which are established to bring together the normal endeavours of government, voluntary and private agencies in a comprehensive and coordinated way to deal with the whole spectrum of emergency needs including prevention, response and recovery.

An emergency management liaison officer is a person appointed by an agency, who: • represents his/her agency in another agency’s facility utilised to manage an emergency response; or – a coordination centre; or – an emergency management team; and • is empowered to commit, or to arrange the commitment, of resources of the agency to the response to an emergency; and • represents the interests of the agency and provides advice in relation to impacts and consequence management.

Consists of the incident controller, support agency commanders (or their representatives) and the emergency response coordinator (or representative). The EMT should be formed when two or more agencies combine or work cooperatively in response to an emergency. Once the incident controller determines the control strategy (in consultation with support agency commanders), this is implemented through their respective command structures. The emergency response coordinator’s role is to ensure a coordinated multi-agency response, and to provide for systematic acquisition of required resources.

The provision of immediate and basic services to people affected by an emergency. (See also emergency relief centre)

An emergency relief centre is a building or place established to immediate and basic services to people affected by an emergency (including evacuees). Emergency relief centres are established on a temporary basis to cope with the immediate needs of those affected during the initial response to the emergency. They do not imply any longer-term use of facilities as a location for recovery services.

A member of the Victoria Police appointed as state, regional, municipal or field emergency response coordinator, whose role is to coordinate the response to an emergency.

A plan which sets out the roles and responsibilities of agencies in emergency response and the control and coordination arrangements which are to be utilised. [Act]