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AAS

air attack supervisor

ABC

aerial bundled cable; Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ABCB

Australian Building Codes Board

ACR

automatic circuit recloser

AER

Australian Energy Regulator

AFAC

Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council

AIIMS

Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System

AS

Australian Standard

AWS

automatic weather station

BAL

bushfire attack level

BAL–FZ

Bushfire Attack Level—Flame Zone

BCA

Building Code of Australia

BPA

bushfire-prone area

CFA

Country Fire Authority

CFS

Country Fire Service (South Australia)

COAG

Council of Australian Governments

COMDISPLAN

Australian Government Disaster Response Plan

CRC

Cooperative Research Centre

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

DECC

Divisional Emergency Coordination Centre

DEECD

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

DERC

Divisional Emergency Response Coordinator

DHS

Department of Human Services

DIGO

Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation

DISPLAN

Disaster Reponse Plan

DMS

document management system

DPCD

Department of Planning and Community Development

DPI

Department of Primary Industries

DSE

Department of Sustainability and Environment

ECC

Emergency Coordination Centre

EMA

Emergency Management Australia

ESMS

Electricity Safety Management Scheme

ESO

emergency services operator; emergency services organisation;
Environmental Significance Overlay

ESTA

Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority

ESV

Energy Safe Victoria

FDI

fire danger index

FFDI

Forest Fire Danger Index

FP–020

Standards Australia Technical Committee FP–020

FPAA

Fire Protection Association Australia

GFDI

Grassland Fire Danger Index

HIA

Housing Industry Association

HVP

Hancock Victorian Plantations

ICC

incident control centre

iECC

integrated Emergency Coordination Centre

IFACC

Integrated Fire Agency Coordination Centre

IFMPF

Integrated Fire Management Planning Framework

IMS

incident management system

IMSS

information management systems and services

IMT

incident management team

LGA

local government area

MAV

Municipal Association of Victoria

MECC

Municipal Emergency Coordination Centre

MEMP

municipal emergency management plan

MERC

Municipal Emergency Response Coordinator

MERO

Municipal Emergency Resource Officer

MFB

Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board

MOU

memorandum of understanding

NEO

Networked Emergency Organisation

NER

neutral earth resistor

OCR

oil circuit recloser

OESC

Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner

PROV

Public Record Office Victoria

RCM

reliability-centered maintenance

RECC

Regional Emergency Coordination Centre

RMIT

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

RSPCA

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

RTO

registered training organisation

SCC

State Control Centre—previously integrated Emergency Coordination Centre

SECC

State Emergency Coordination Centre

SECV

State Electricity Commission of Victoria

SERCC

State Emergency Response Coordination Centre

SERP

State Emergency Response Plan

SEWS

Standard Emergency Warning Signal

SLO

Significant Landscape Overlay

SOP

standard operating procedure

SWER

single-wire earth return

T

transcript

TFB

total fire ban

UAM

Utility Asset Management

VBRRA

Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority

VEMC

Victorian Emergency Management Council

VERS

Victorian Electronic Records Strategy

VFRR

Victorian Fire Risk Register

VICSES

Victoria State Emergency Service

VMIA

Victorian Managed Insurance Agency

VPP

Victoriann Planning Provisions

WMO

Wildfire Management Overlay

 

 

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