Publication Date
6-2019
Publisher
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
City
Perth
Abstract
The overall purpose of this work was to provide advice and guidance to the Minister for Agriculture and Food and Director General of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) on how the combined skills and resources of DPIRD can better sustain a high-level biosecurity response whilst retaining the integrity of its other functions.
To develop this advice, two key activities were undertaken:
- Information gathering and review (via literature review and key informant interviews) to identify the essential characteristics of a biosecurity combat agency; the skillsets required to respond to high-level biosecurity incidents; and ways biosecurity combat agencies minimise the impact of high-level incident response on other business areas within the agency; and
- Stakeholder consultation on what they view as the key features of an effective, contemporary biosecurity combat agency.
Number of Pages
4
Keywords
Western Australia, biosecurity, risks and threats, biosecurity response
Disciplines
Agricultural and Resource Economics | Biosecurity
Recommended Citation
Biosecurity Council of Western Australia.
(2019), Sustaining a biosecurity response: What makes an effective and contemporary biosecurity ‘combat’ agency? Summary report by the Biosecurity Council of Western Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia, Perth. Report.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/bs_publishedrpts/46
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