Emergency Management
The Department of Human Services is responsible for the following key areas in Victoria’s emergency management arrangements:
- Community support and recovery. The department is the principal agency for State Recovery Coordination.
- Pre-hospital mass casualty management at incident sites by medical and ambulance services including the deployment of hospital teams.
- Hospital emergency response to a surge in demand for services.
- Public health emergency response, including incident control functions for biological and radiological incidents, and food and water contamination.
For more information, please visit the Emergency Management website.