Shaping our Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan

Every five years, we must review our Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group Plan, as required by the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002.

Since our last plan was developed in 2018, the Nelson Tasman region has experienced a number of significant events. Throughout these responses, our current arrangements have been tested and no major changes to the way we operate as a CDEM Group have been identified that would require significant change to the structure of our Group Plan.

Our current plan is due to be reviewed now,, and while this plan is still fit for purpose, we are proposing to update it in the following way to reflect changes and lessons learnt from responses over the past five years:

Ensuring our plan details the role of Māori and iwi in emergency management in our region aligning our existing goals and objectives to the National Disaster Resilience Strategy 2019-2029.

Including a number of improvements to our collective capability to respond to emergencies learnt through recent events

Updating our regional risk profile to ensure new research and impacts of previous events are incorporated and potential emerging issues are included

Adoption of the Coordinated Incident Management System version 3 – an updated Government standard that defines how public and private sector agencies work together in an emergency

Ensuring agency names and positions are updated and correct clarity and readability improvements ensuring alignment with the current iteration of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

For more information and to share your thoughts, visit shape.tasman.govt.nz/cdem-group-plan