Incident Advice

To ensure your business is prepared for unexpected events and is more resilient after emergencies, Business Victoria have put together this useful fact sheet of resources. We encourage you to keep this fact sheet in an easy-to-find place and share it with your professional contacts.

The VicEmergency website or hotline 1800 226 226 provides the Victorian community with one, centralised location for emergency warnings and information for a range of events, including fires, storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, water safety and shark sightings.

The CFA provides further support and information on planning for a bushfire here.

All tourism operators should be familiar with the triggers and recommended actions for the new Fire Danger Ratings, which tell you how bad a fire would be if one started.

Crisis Essentials: Crisis management for tourism businesses: This guide provides information to assist tourism businesses to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a crisis event such as a bushfire.

Stay informed during a crisis. Keep your emergency contact details up to date.

The VicEmergency website or hotline 1800 226 226 provides the Victorian community with one, centralised location for emergency warnings and information for a range of events, including fires, storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, water safety and shark sightings.

Call the SES on 132500 to report FLOOD or STORM damage or call the general VicEmergency hotline on 1800 226 226

Utilise the business continuity planning resources to assist your business to plan, prepare and recover.

• Stay up to date on road closures at VicRoads
• EPA AirWatch Environment Protection Authority, for air quality information
• VicEmergency Hotline 1800 226 226
• VicEmergency are also on Twitter (@vicemergency) and Facebook
• Parks Victoria. Safety in nature.
• VTIC Industry Support Hub