Emergency Management
The Department of Human Services is responsible for the following key area in Victoria’s emergency management arrangements:
- community support and recovery.
The Department of Human Services works with the Department of Health in delivering its responsibilities for the following key areas in Victoria's emergency management operations:
- 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.