The Civil Defence Emergency Management Group [CDEM Group] for Taranaki (comprising representatives of the New Plymouth, Stratford and South Taranaki District Council’s and the Taranaki Regional Council) has a draft Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan for Taranaki, pursuant to section 48 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002.

The Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan for Taranaki provides for an ‘all hazards’ approach to emergency management planning and activity within the CDEM Group area for Taranaki. The CDEM Group Plan states the civil defence emergency management structure and systems necessary to manage those hazards, including the arrangements for declaring a state of emergency in the Group’s area. The Group Plan is therefore the primary instrument whereby the community identifies and assesses its hazards and risks, and decides on the acceptable level of risk to be managed and how they are to be managed.

This is the first CDEM Group Plan to be prepared for Taranaki.

The CDEM Group heard submissions on this proposed CDEM Group Plan at their regular meeting on Tuesday 21 September 2004 and approved the Group Plan in November 2004.

IF YOU ARE an employer, the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 places duties on you in relation to hazard management. The Act requires all employers to have an effective method for identifying hazards.