Happy New Year!
We hope this message finds you refreshed. This break allowed our team to recharge, reflect and plan for an incredible year ahead. We have some exciting course developments continuing and are looking forward to a busy year with our first Tier 1 Part 1 course already underway, and preparations in progress for our first 2024 Tier 1 Part 2 course in Hamilton in 5 weeks.
Along with this, our team continues to undergo further professional development, David Parsons is beginning the 12 week Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Course and is booked into an Australasian Inter Service Incident Management System Situation Officer Course in February. David hopes to gain valuable new insights that can be incorporated into future RRANZ courses.
International Partnerships - AIES & RRANZ
RRANZ has an MoU with the Australasian Institute of Emergency Services (AIES). So, when Brenden Winder, Manager of Civil Defence and Emergency Management for Christchurch, reached out to RRANZ asking us to facilitate a visit to the New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) State Headquarters it was quickly arranged.
The visit facilitated an exchange of issues and ideas, including the management of significant climate events and tsunami planning. Brenden also had an opportunity to see how the SES is developing capabilities in public warnings, operations management, and flood rescue etc.
Brendan Winder (CDEM Christchurch) & Mark Beard (SES) at the New South Wales State Emergency Service Headquarters
The visit also helped to strengthen relationships between the organisations. The SES was supported by multiple task groups from NZ during recent major flood events in NSW and may one day deploy to support his community.
Congratulations to all our 2023 students!
We want to acknowledge the achievements of our top students from the 2023 Part Two courses. They will each receive a $100 book voucher in recognition of their outstanding performance.
Auckland 2023 - Todd Miller & Karl Tutty
Wellington 2023 - Christopher Brewer
Christchurch 2023 - Sam Fellows
*These results are based on submissions received by the assessment due date.
Did you know, many of our excellent RRANZ facilitators also offer consulting services?
- Capability building workshops
- Supporting the assessment of recovery needs and capabilities
- Reviewing and monitoring early recovery work undertaken to assist in reflection and redirection of efforts
- Reviewing existing Recovery Plans and assisting to develop the next version
- Establishing approaches for facilitating a community-centered recovery approach
- Assessing and evaluating the recovery outcomes
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Lessons from the Cyber Frontier
Gloucester City Council: Managing a Cyber Attack
This is a fascinating and sobering report from Gloucester City Council in the UK detailing their 2021 cyber attack - a targeted ransomware attack which encrypted its servers and temporarily prevented the council from providing services which relied on the data held on those servers.
”we are now two years on from the attack and the final data is just being restored to our systems”
Nearer to home, a report reviewing the Waikato District Health Board's response to a ransomware attack in 2021 summarises the information gathered for the Ministry of Health on lessons learned from the 2021 ransomware attack on the WDHB.