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APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The following definitions used throughout the guide are from AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk Management,
and Emergency Management Australia’s Emergency Risk Management Applications Guide, Second
Edition, 2004.
Community
A group of people with a commonality of association and generally defined by location, shared
experience, or function.
Consequences
Outcome or impact of an event.
Control
An existing process, policy device, practice or other action that acts to minimize negative risk to
enhance positive opportunities.
Elements at Risk
The population, buildings and civil engineering works, economic activities, public services and
infrastructure etc, exposed to sources of risk.
Emergency
An event, actual or imminent, which endangers or threatens to endanger life, property or the
environment, and which requires a significant and coordinated response.
Emergency risk management
A systematic process that produces a range of measures contributing to the well-being of
communities and the environment.
Environment
Conditions or influences comprising built, physical and social elements which surround or interact
with the community.
Hazard
A source of potential harm.
Lifeline
A system or network that provides services on which the well-being of the community depends.
Likelihood
Used as a general description of the probability or frequency.
Monitor
To check, supervise, observe critically, or record the progress of an activity, action or system on a
regular basis in order to identify change from the performance level required or expected.
Preparedness
Arrangements to ensure that, should an emergency occur, all those resources and services which
are needed to cope with the effects can be efficiently mobilized and deployed.
Prevention
Regulatory and physical measures to ensure that emergencies are eliminated or their effects
mitigated.
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