Bushfire-Ready Schools is a Tasmania Fire Service bushfire safety initiative.
Its objective is to promote community resilience to bushfire, through supporting education centres in bushfire-prone areas to manage their bushfire risk.
This is important to the Tasmania Fire Service because:
- School children are a vulnerable section of our community;
- Schools are a key community asset, often central to a community; and
- Schools have a duty of care to provide a safe workplace for staff and students.
The Comprehensive School Safety framework is a global framework developed in support of The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and The Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools. It is endorsed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and is aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.