TASSIE FIRE Conference
Proceedings
18 - 20 July 2007,
Wrest Point Conference Centre
Hobart, Tasmania
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THURSDAY 20th SEPTEMBER |
08:30 -
KEYNOTE |
Am I Right or Am I Right? Ethical
Leadership in Emergency Services
Kevin Brame
Deputy Fire Chief City of North Las Vegas North Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA |
10:30 - CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
AFAC STREAM 1
Federation
Concert Hall |
AFAC STREAM 2
Grand Ballroom 1 |
AFAC STREAM 3
Grand Ballroom 2 |
CRC
STREAM
Grand Ballroom 3 |
Fire management & the bush – from an ad hoc
seasonal pre-occupation to ‘policy centre-stage’
Gary Morgan *, Tony Bartlett, Mike Leonard |
Breaking down the
barriers - New & emerging communities & the Emergency Services
Con Patralis
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Civilian Passenger
Burnover Experimentation
Andrew Sargeant *, Justin Leonard, Raphaele Blanchi,
Steve Brown |
Eucalypt Decline in
the Absence of Fire
Dugald Close (UTAS) |
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Growing a quality risk management
framework
Tony Madigan, Gary Morgan |
Working with
communities during major bushfires
Alan Rhodes |
Beyond our normal
field of vision … the impact of art on community bushfire
understandings
John Schauble |
Reconstructing the
fire history of an unmanaged semiarid shrubland using remote
sensing & dendrochronology
Alison O'Donnell (UWA) |
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Policy design for wildfire risk management
John Handmer *, Steve Dovers |
Community development
within fire recovery - opportunities
Sally McKay |
The 2006 / 07
Victorian Great Divide Fires: Building improvement through the
grounded theory
Graham Dwyer *, Aimee Haywood, Tania Sherwood, Greg Esnouf |
Fire, vegetation
change & potential feedbacks to the global carbon cycle
Meghan Jenkins (UNSW) |
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A prescribed burning risk assessment tool
(BRAT)
Alen Slijepcevic *, Kevin Tolhurst, Graeme Saunder,
Sandra Wright, Jon Marsden-Smedley |
Building the
sustainability of Information Flow to communities during
emergency events
Jane Fontana, Jennifer O’Beirne, Gregory Hickey |
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Fire, fuel & grazing
in the Australian high country
Steven
Roxburgh
(UNSW) |
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13:30 - CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
Are big fires inevitable? Perspectives from the Hire Fire Risk
Project
Rick McRae *, Jason Sharples, Rod Webster |
Innovations in
Technology
Hugh Bradlow |
Leadership, emotional
intelligence & the Fire Service
Phil Smith |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bushfires in
Australia - an analysis of carbon cycling and inventory
accounting issues
Mick Meyer (CSIRO) |
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Global Fire Management
Strategy
Murray Dudfield |
Working Together to Achieve Technology
Solutions for Emergency Services
Paul Rofe, Gary Jones, Andrew Bowey |
Tote that barge, lift
that bale: How employers view fire service volunteers
Adrian Birch *, Jim McLennan, Martin Surrey |
Project Vesta: Field
implications from forest fire behaviour research findings
Jim Gould
(Ensis) |
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Formation of effective
Multi Agency Incident/Emergency Management Teams in a CBR
context
Greg Stephenson |
WA Emergency Radio
Network
Graham Barron |
Employer Recognition
Programmes - building the strategic alliance, one organisations
experience
Heather Clark |
Coupling bushfire spread with a sensor network detection system
Bobby Chu & Paul Johnston
(UWA) |
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Vision Systems for ground-based long-range wildfire detection in
the Americas, Europe & Africa
Gavin Hough |
Using the web to provide real time fire
information to the community: The TFS Experience
Mike Brown |
Volunteers managing
safety
Melissa Pollock |
New Technologies for Future
Learning - providing training options in fire behaviour training
Annette Salter (UTAS) |
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16:00 - CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
VICSES Operations Capability Framework (OCF)
Trevor White, Tim Wiebusch* |
Delivering fire safety information to those most at risk
Frank Stockton*, Julie Harris* |
Effective performance management for
firefighters: Developing a system for all fire agency staff
Steve Willing *, Robyn Pearce |
A duty fitness test for tanker-based fire fighters
Matt Philips (RMIT) |
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Request for assistance online – an Operations
Management System implemented by the NSW State Emergency Service
Andrew Edwards * |
Community Engagement about fire on public land
Meredith Hartley, Kylie Scanlon |
An evidence based approach to developing &
implementing Performance Management
Simon Fishwick |
Potential air-toxics from vegetation fires
Dane Hansen
(RMIT) |
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Tsunami - A Southeast Australian focus
Andrew Lea |
Climate, community & capacity
Clifford Overton *, James Holyman |
Communication strategies & collaborative work practices in
Incident Management Teams (IMTs): The keys to organising for
high reliability
Ian Dwyer |
The use of worst case scenarios in decision making
by bushfire fire fighters
Claire Johnson
(La Trobe) |
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FRIDAY
21st SEPTEMBER |
08:30 - CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
AFAC STREAM 1
Federation
Concert Hall |
AFAC STREAM 2
Grand Ballroom 1 |
AFAC STREAM 3
Grand Ballroom 2 |
CRC
STREAM
Grand Ballroom 3 |
Building environmental management into
business – what the Country Fire Authority, Victoria, Australia
is doing
Helen Bull |
Collaborative Purchasing
Arthur Tindall |
The Decision
to Decide - A Discussion on Tunnel Fire Safety
Shane Wright *, Greg Bawden, Adam Dalrymple, Jarrod Edwards,
Christine Iliaskos |
New directions for fire research
in the US Forest Service
Mark Finney (USDA FS) |
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The MFB - Reducing our environmental impact
Elaine Stewart |
Collaborative Purchasing - The UK
Experience
Richard Peasgood |
Organisational implications of the discovery of asbestos at the
NSWFB USAR training site, Holsworthy
Kathryn Heiler |
Prescribed Fire in Young Eucalypt Plantations: Is it worth the
risk?
Phil Lacy
(NSW FS) |
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10:00 -
KEYNOTE |
Facilitated Learning Analysis -
Reinforcing High Reliability by Taking a Hard Look at Near Miss
Paul Chamberlin
Interagency Fire Operations Safety Specialist, USDOI US Fish and
Wildlife
Aerial Fire Depot, Missoula, Montana, USA
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Building a Foundation for Learning: The
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center in the United States
Paula Nasiatka
Center Manager, U.S. Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center
National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
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11:00 - CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
100 years of building
losses due to Bushfire: What have we learnt?
John McAneney |
Developing and implementing operational
safety training in the New South Wales Fire Brigades
Janine Bailey |
Building EEO into your
organisational planning & development
Susan Biggs |
Linking field
observations with remote sensing to determine grassland fire
hazard
Stuart Anderson
(ENSIS NZ)
Elizabeth Botha
(ENSIS Aus) |
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"How much, Who pays,
who uses, who cares". The total cost of fire in Australia
Graeme Douglas Thom |
Aligning Fire Service strategy with
Local Government Long Term Council Community Planning
Mitchell Brown |
The
Case for Diversity
Dalal Smiley |
Spatial techniques for grassland curing
Danielle Martin (RMIT) |
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13:00
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Learning lessons in a
litigious environment - the challenge for modern ESOs
Catherine Dunlop |
Improving community preparedness for bushfire: the rationale
behind the Tasmanian bushfire DVD, & what follows
Damien Killalea |
Measurement of rural
firefighter productivity & workload
Richard Parker*, David Riley, Grant Pearce, Stuart
Anderson |
Trends in
deliberate bushfires in Australia
Damon Muller
(AIC) |
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Burning for biodiversity, or burning the
biodiversity?
Trent Penman*, Doug Binns, Rod Kavanagh |
House Loss - A spatial
Challenge
Justin Leonard*, Bob Leciester, Raphaele Blanchi,
Felix Lipkin, Andrew Sargeant |
Fatigue on the Fire
Ground: The DPI Experience
Beth Wilson, Hayden Cater*, David Clancy, Kathy
Duffy, Alina Holgate, Jacqueline Wood |
Evacuate late at your peril: An assessment
of Australian bushfire
fatalities
Katharine Haynes (RMIT/Maquarie) |
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Ecological Fire Management in North East
Victoria
Dan Jamieson*, Aaron Kennedy* |
House loss & weather
conditions
Raphaele Blanchi *, Chris Lucas, Justin Leonard |
The work demands of
tanker-based bushfire suppression by Australian volunteer
firefighters in southern Australia
Brad Aisbett*, Matthew Phillips, David Nichols |
Fire, families & decisions
Mae Proudley
(RMIT) |
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The effects of
frequent burning on the nutrient cycling & insect herbivory:
Implications for forest health
Fiona Christie, Alan York |
House fires: are
modern contents & construction making them more dangerous
Chris Lewis |
Assessing
firefighters’ exposure to air toxics in bushfire smoke
Fabienne Reisen*, Mick Meyer, Dane Hansen |
Clearing away the
undergrowth - shedding light on the factors that influence the
decision to prepare for bushfires
Tim Prior
(UTAS) |
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POSTER
SESSION |
LISTED
BY TITLE |
A Framework for Bushfire Management
Planning
Geoff Young, Peter Moore |
Analysing Volatile Components of Bushfire
Smoke
Simin Maleknia *, Tina Bell, Mark Adams |
Best environmental practice when managing
hazardous material incidents
Tania Tolliday * |
Bushfire applications for metal fusible
links activation of shutters
Alex Webb *, Jonathan Barnett, Tom DeMasi, Michael
Sheehan, Justin Leonard |
Bush fire management in high organic soils
on the Swan Coastal Plain
Ralph Smith *, Jade Leask |
Bushfire smoke, health and fire management
Fay Johnston, Ross Bailie, Louis Pilotto |
Chained and burnt fuelbreaks in the
mallee:
N Robinson *, K Schneider, K Tolhurst |
Community Profiling - A Tool for Fire
Services
Alison Cottrell * |
Cooperative management of grasslands for
fire safety and the environment
Paul Hill, Helen Bull |
Ember Screen Protection for Evaporative
Air-conditioners
David Lamont *, Russell Stevens |
Emergency Aerial Intelligence
Mike Waters * |
Environmental responsibility in emergency
management – Australasian Fire Authorities Council (AFAC)
position
Russell Rees *, Helen Bull, Shannon Heathcote, Tania
Tolliday, Mike Wouters |
Environmental responsibility in emergency
management – what the Australasian Fire Authorities Council
(AFAC) is doing
Russell Rees *, Helen Bull, Shannon Heathcote, Tania
Tolliday, Mike Wouters |
Establishment of a Set of Wildfire
Chronosequence Benchmark Plots in Southern Tasmania
Perpetua Turner, Simon Grove, Craig Airey, Chris McElhinny, Ian
Scanlan, Julian Power, Oliver Stott, Julia Sohn |
FARM FIREWISE - Preparing your property,
Protecting your community
Virginia Dixon, Jeremy Friend, Alan Walker |
FireTraC A secure digital approach to fire
scene investigation
Robert Alexander * |
Impact of dioxin emissions from bushfires
in Australia
Mick Meyer *, Jochen Mueller, Bob Symons, Fabienne
Reisen, Robert Black, John
Gras |
"It's all
about Roles and Responsibilities"
Andrew Short |
Meeting challenges: Implementing a Code of
Practice for Fire Management in Victoria
Aimee Haywood *, Rachaele May |
Meteorological aspects of the Wilsons
Promontory Fire of April 2005
Scott Williams *, Kevin Parkyn |
Modelling Fire Ignition Probabilities
using Logistic Regression
Andreia Siqueira *, Alen Slijepcevic |
The beginnings of a new fleet
Tarron Newman *, Ray Campbell * |
The development of an Arson Information
Network in Western Australia
Phillip Cribb * |
The Integrated Fire Management Planning
Framework for Victoria
Norman Free |
The role of collective efficacy/confidence
and its importance in Incident Management Teams [IMT] work
activity: Preliminary findings of a PhD study
Jan Douglas |
What did we do to enforce compliance?
Michael Rossiter *, Paul Enders |
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