AWARE community survey results : report of the City of Rockingham for the Local Emergency Management Committee / final report produced by Brenda Hendricks, Trish Lee, Dr. Julie Ann Pooley.

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Spiral bound.

1. Project plan -- 2. Process of consultation -- 3. Context -- 4. Respondent demographics -- 5. Community identified risks -- 6. Community identified assets -- 7. Local emergency management -- 8. Local emergency recovery -- 9. Summary of analysis.

The All West Australian's Reducing Emergencies (AWARE) project is a joint initiative between the City of Rockingham (COR) in coordination with the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia (FESA). It is important to identify potential hazards that may be present in the community so they can be addressed using the Preparedness, Prevention, Response and Recovery (PPRR) approach implemented by Local Government. The purpose of this project was to identify and document the risks, via community consultation, that may threaten the safety and well being of the built, physical and social environments within the City of Rockingham. The community consultation process consisted of four stages. Stage 1 involved identifying key stakeholders and facilitating two focus groups involving representatives from the key stakeholder groups. Key stakeholders that were not able to be involved in focus groups were interviewed to gain relevant information pertinent to that group. Based on data collected from the focus groups, interviews, previous AWARE risk assessments and Policy No.7, survey questions were developed. The second stage involved piloting the survey, in order to ensure that the questions were truly representative of the perspectives of the community, as was reflected in the focus groups and interviews. The pilot group consisted of members of the Local Emergency Management Committee (LEMC). Upon successful completion of the pilot testing phase, 4,995 surveys were disseminated to community members within the COR. Stage 3 involved the data being analysed by a Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 13.0, and stage 4 culminated in the production of a report to be presented to the COR's LEMC.