Tools for impact
Developed over the Centre's 20 year legacy of life-saving research, these tools continue to impact Australian communities
A guide to non-technical skills
A practical guide to understanding and managing non-technical skills in emergency management, supporting better decision making, communication, leadership and teamwork in an operational context.
The Australian Disaster Resilience Index
Explore disaster resilience, coping capacity and adaptive capacity across Australian communities to support informed planning, policy and risk management.
Australian Flammability Monitoring System
Utilise satellite data to map live fuel and soil moisture conditions, providing a clearer image of immediate fire risk to support operational fire planning.
Capability Maturity Assessment Tool
Assess and strengthen emergency management organisational capability maturity to support coordinated preparedness for severe to catastrophic disasters.
Cultural Burning in southern Australia
Explore diverse First Nations cultural burning practices to support fire and land management agencies to better understand and engage with cultural burning practices.
Disaster Recovery Guide
Apply the Recovery Capitals framework to support wellbeing and informed decision making during disaster recovery.
Economic Analysis Tool
Assess and compare the costs and benefits of natural hazard mitigation options to support prioritisation and business case development.
Inquiries and reviews database
Search through 315 emergency management inquiries and reviews from across Australia between 1886 and 2020, which can be sorted through a simple table display.
Prescribed Burning Atlas
Compare how different combinations of prescribed burning techniques reduce risk and the cost of different mitigation options through a tool that incorporates thousands of fire simulations and covers several landscape types across Australia.
Risk Ownership Framework for Emergency Management Policy and Practice
Learn how to better allocate risk ownership as part of your strategic planning and risk assessment activities and enhance your understanding of emergency risks and your risk management and monitoring activities. This tool can also inform disaster risk policy.
Sustainable volunteering tools
These evidence-based tools for emergency volunteer leaders help you with all stages of volunteer management, including recruitment, onboarding, retention and succession planning.
Teamwork Tools
These six tools improve teamwork and strategic decision-making in emergency management.
Transformative Scenarios in a Climate-Challenged World
These tools help emergency services to test strategies and practices against different plausible future scenarios that we are likely to experience between now and 2035.
Weather the Storm
This tool helps builders and homeowners to improve a home’s key structural connections against extreme wind, exploring the ways that different types of maintenance and retrofitting can protect an older house from damage at different wind speeds with practical and economic options.
Workforce 2030
This tool uses videos and reports to help you imagine what emergency service workforces will be like in the year 2030, revealing emergency management trends and how you can best prepare.
Young Volunteer Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing Resources
These practical and evidence-based tools promote positive mental health and wellbeing in young adult emergency service volunteers aged 16 to 25 years old, which can be used at an individual, local and organisational level to minimise the impact of traumatic experiences of volunteering.