- Title
- Crisis Simulation Exercises of terrorist incidents in the Australian water industry
- Creator
- Crowe, Jamie; Birkett, Dave; Mala-Jetmarova, Helena
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32527
- Identifier
- vital:4625
- Abstract
- Australian water organisations currently rank within the nine sectors identified by the Federal Government under the category of Critical Infrastructure (CI), as designated by the Attorney General's Department. As such, water from a CI protection perspective is considered to be a vulnerable target for terrorism. Major global terrorist incidents such as the attack in New York in 2001 coupled with the media interest and associated amplification have highlighted the need for organisations to protect water infrastructure from future attacks. The Victorian Government is leading the path to terrorism risk reduction of CI by the introduction of an Act of Parliament Terrorism (Community Protection) Act 2003, assuring that risk mitigation is in place across the state. One requirement under this Act is to annually practice plans and procedures in the form of scripted Crisis Simulation Exercises (CSE). These CSEs are to ensure that water organisations are more resilient to meet the challenge and maintain business continuity during any future terrorist incident. This includes the interactions and timings of available resources, logistics with appropriate personnel as required and to the appropriate level indicated in the plans. These CSEs can incorporate live actions, testing equipment and personnel within all organisational levels. It is considered that CI organisations which adopt these strategies enhance business survival and continuity, producing a resilient entity prepared for and resistant to penetration by an organised terrorist group or radical cell. This paper provides an overview of a simulation framework to ensure preparedness suitable for mitigation of risk of terrorism in relation to the Australian water industry.
- Publisher
- Perth, WA The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
- Rights
- Copyright The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Australian water industry; Crisis Simulation Exercises (CSE); Terrorism; Business continuity; Business survival; Federal governments; Government IS; New York; Organisational level; Risk mitigation; Simulation exercise; Simulation framework; Terrorism risks; Terrorist groups; Terrorist incident; Testing equipment; Water industries; Water infrastructure; Personnel testing; Societies and institutions; Water supply
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