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correlated with LWBS patients. The majority of LWBS patients were assigned level 3 or 4, representing 94.64% of the LWBS population. Independent predictors of LWBS included pediatric patients, lower triage category, non-assisted transport, evening presentations, day and month presentations. Conclusion: Patients' leaving the ED without being seen is a serious health issue that may delay care and result in adverse outcomes, especially for higher acuity patients. The most powerful predictors of LWBS are pediatric patients arriving by non-assisted transport in the evening with lower acuity problems. Potential risk management strategies should be implemented to decrease or eliminate LWBS population by better communication between staff and patients, providing more comfort measures and some other steps. Dr Tony McArthur Professional Assistant to the Executive Director, Catholic Education Commission NSW Emergency management in NSW Catholic Schools: a case study of emergency management in a NSW non-government organisation The Catholic Education Commission NSW (CEC) is the peak body for the 581 Catholic schools in NSW. Since 2009, CEC has been required to serve as dissemination point for emergency messages, sent by the NSW State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC), concerning bushfire, flood and other emergencies. Initially, CEC established email groups and collected both landline and mobile phone numbers for designated contact personnel at diocesan school offices. However, accountability obligations required the tracking of all emergency notifications and the verification of message receipt. This led to the development of the CEC Emergency Management System (CECEMS). CECEMS is a web app that has replaced the use of the phone/email contacts as the primary mode of emergency communications. CEC's Charter prohibits it having a direct role in the administration of schools. Consequently, emergency notification procedures/instructions need to be delivered to schools by their respective Diocesan Catholic Education Office. To achieve this CEC developed the Diocesan Emergency Management System (DEMS). Once Diocesan offices receive emergency notifications via CECEMS, they can then transmit the information to their respective schools and agencies via DEMS. This tool was distributed to dioceses to be used at their discretion through a deed of gift. This web app is being put into operation by seven of the eleven dioceses. Emergency situations have always involved responsibility for schools and Diocesan offices. But since 2009 this responsibility has escalated to the level that schools must be able to send emergency information, at very short notice, to their parents and staff. This has placed direct responsibility on Principals to make decisions in circumstances totally unfamiliar to most of them. To alleviate this, CEC, in cooperation with the Rural Fire Service and other agencies, is currently developing tools to support Principals' decision making in emergency situations. Ms Becky Paroz Knowledge Custodian, Aust Project Management Mentors and Assoc (APMMA) Project managers and disasters How does Project Management apply to the real world, in particular when a crisis or disaster occurs? The use of Project Management methodology can assist in focusing people and talent on areas that require immediate response in times of need, such as a disaster. What do you focus on? How do you build the team in a short time? Will it work, or is it another layer of “management” that can be done without, in an effort to get things done without delay? This presentation offers lessons learnt from an award winning global summit that saw approximately 100 young project
managers from around the world challenged to come up with a recovery plan for several disaster scenarios. Inspired by the floods of 2011, this IPMA Young Crew workshop was held for the first time in the southern hemisphere, in Brisbane, 10 months after disaster hit that city (and state). The teams, created on the day, were each given a disaster that had occurred globally in the previous 12 months and tasked with developing a crisis management plan for that scenario using project management principles. The obstacles included language barriers, cultural differences, alternative training context and content, time factors and changing requirements. The “real-life” situation of disaster management was duplicated as much as possible to allow the teams to get a true sense of what it may be like to be involved in recovery and management plans. The presentation offers insight into the techniques used and the benefits realised from the 2 day workshop. Dr Mahesh Prakash Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Co Author - Mr Stuart Mead, Graduate Fellow, CSIRO. Dr James Hilton, Research Scientist, CSIRO. Coastal Inundation: Simulation and visualisation strategies for better community engagement and risk assessment Estimating coastal inundation due to extreme weather conditions such as storm surges and cyclones, a tsunami event or due to sea level rise caused by climate change have become an important topic of consideration for managing existing structures as well as for planning purposes to build new coastal infrastructure. Flow modelling including computational fluid dynamic simulations is now used regularly to determine inundation levels, arrival times and flood maps for various coastal inundation problems. However current techniques are not able to provide a clear visual account of such events due to limitations including inability to capture the large scale flow in three dimensions and poor visualisation caused by lack of integration of the flow modelling with state of the art 3D visualisation methods. Using case studies this paper presents the value of integrating 3D flow modelling techniques with the latest visualisation methods for coastal inundation. The ability of this integrated approach in assisting authorities for better informed planning, mitigation and management will be discussed. Miss Carol Readshaw Senior Policy Officer, Disaster Preparedness & Management Unit, WA Health AllocateME – A Smartphone application to track and communicate casualty details in a mass casualty incident The accurate allocation of casualties to definitive care in a mass casualty incident ensures better outcomes for patients as well as reducing the burden on resources. Real time information is critical to determine appropriate patient allocation to health care facilities, based on injury type and the capability of the receiving facility (Killeen, Chan, Buono, Griswold & Lenert, 2006). To correctly allocate casualties decision makers need clear, accurate and timely access to information. Traditionally radio communications have been heavily relied upon to transmit information. Details received can be difficult to hear and may not be presented in a logical, sequential or timely manner. To address this issue I have created ‘AllocateME’, an application that utilises Smartphone technology to communicate casualty details from a disaster site to a central location in real time. With AllocateME casualty details are sent to a central database. Key information communicated includes priority, triage tag number, gender, age group, primary and secondary injury, name, a photo to assist in reunification, intubation status and a recommended care setting. Decision makers can view information in real time and are able to make informed hospital allocation decisions which can be relayed to the transport nurse at the disaster scene. The application can also capture transport details such as departure time and mode of transport. Tracking of patient from the incident scene to definitive care is made possible by linking the unique
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