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This section contains information for organisations that provide health and community services to help them prepare for bushfire season.
Bushfire response: Clients & services policy 2009-10
The Department of Health and the Department of Human Services have released a new policy for responding to the threat of bushfire during the 2009-10 season. It considers recommendations from the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission Interim Report and outlines actions to be taken by each program within both department's to protect our staff, clients and services.
Overview of Bushfire response: Clients and services policy 2009-10 (278kb, pdf)
Department of Health Bushfire response: Clients and services policy 2009-10 (445kb, pdf)
Department of Human Services Bushfire response: Clients and services policy 2009-10 (379kb, pdf)
Summer preparedness kit
In February 2009 the state of Victoria experienced the most devastating bushfires in its history. It is bushfire season once again and it is important that we are reminded that Victoria is one of the most bushfire-prone regions in the world.
The Summer preparedness kit contains information for organisations in the health and community services sector to help them prepare for bushfires.
The kits are available from your regional office of the Department of Human Services or by downloading the information listed below.
General health and mental preparedness information
Preparing for the 2009-10 summer season - clients and services (54kb, pdf)
- Bushfire season - prepare your mind
- Bushfires - people with a disability
- Heat stress and heat-related illness
- Bushfire smoke
- Trauma - how our body reacts
- Trauma - reacting and recovering
- Trauma - helping loved ones
- Trauma - after effects
Specific information for some sectors
Emergency planning for residential aged care services (58kb, pdf)
Summer strategy for Home and Community Care funded organisations (57kb, pdf)
Advice on emergency management and business continuity planning
On-site emergency response planning (61kb, pdf)
Business continuity management (86kb, pdf)
More specific information for different services within the sector is also available on this site:
Prepared: News from the department's Bushfire Preparedness team
- Prepared: Issue 7 (46kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 6 (35kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 5 (32kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 4 (54kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 3 (41kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 2 (32kb, pdf)
- Prepared: Issue 1 (26kb, pdf)
Last updated: 20 November, 2009
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