The following amendments have been made to the State Hazard Plan - Energy Supply Disruption.

Clarification of Alert Warning System (AWS) incident levels

• Alignment of AWS incident levels to State Emergency Management incident levels (section 4.2.4).
• Whilst the AWS incident levels are based on energy-specific criteria, Level 2 and Level 3 incidents will trigger State emergency management incident levels in parallel.
• Colours for Level 1 incident incident levels amended from green to yellow to align with industry approach as a green alert would indicate there is no risk or actual impact (Table 3).
  

General

• Clarification of the role of Energy Policy WA’s Emergency Management Team.
• Inclusion of State Recovery Coordinator role in Response Structure (section 4.2.11 Figure 1).
• Clarification of financial arrangements during response activities (section 4.5).

Appendices

• Appendix C updated to provide ‘Overview of Emergency Management Roles and Responsibilities for Energy Supply Disruption’ (previous Appendix D). This includes addition of Schedule C2 into Appendix C to summarise prevention, preparedness, response and recovery roles and responsibilities for industry and government agencies.
• Removal of Appendix C – Government Response Roles and Responsibilities, which is now reflected in Appendix D Response Roles and Responsibilities.

Statement of Fact Amendments

• Updated related legislation. regulation and other document names.
• Updated language and narrative to raise awareness of actions required.
• Minor amendments to simplify language and improve readability.