EMERGENCY RESPONSE & MAJOR EVENTS
Preparedness and coordination for complex incidents and major events.
Forward State Advisory supports venues, event operators, public-safety organisations and other complex operating environments to strengthen preparedness, build capability and improve coordination when multiple organisations need to work together effectively.
The focus is practical: testing arrangements, clarifying roles, strengthening interoperability and helping teams make coordinated decisions when conditions change quickly.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE & MAJOR EVENTS IN PRACTICE
Different environments. The same need for clear coordination.
MAJOR EVENTS & VENUE OPERATIONS
Emergency planning, contingency arrangements, operational coordination and exercising for sporting, entertainment, festival and major public-event environments.
MULTI-AGENCY COORDINATION
Testing how venue teams, operators, security, police, fire, ambulance, government and other partners share information, make decisions and work within their respective authorities.
ACTIVE THREAT & COMPLEX INCIDENTS
Preparedness and exercising for active armed offender, coordinated attack and other high-consequence scenarios where rapid escalation and multi-agency interoperability are critical.
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CROWD & MOVEMENT
Planning and exercising around ingress and egress, evacuation, sheltering, transport interfaces, crowd behaviour and changing public-safety conditions.
Test the arrangements before the environment tests them.
PREPAREDNESS
Preparedness support helps venues, event operators, precincts and public-safety organisations examine how existing plans and coordination arrangements will work under realistic pressure.
Event emergency planning · Contingency planning · Operational readiness reviews · Activation and escalation arrangements · Venue and precinct coordination · Emergency-services integration · Crowd and movement planning · Active-threat preparedness · Active armed offender preparedness · Complex coordinated incident planning · Stakeholder and agency integration · Preparedness assurance
The aim is not to add another layer of planning, but to make existing arrangements clearer, better connected and easier to use when conditions become complex.
CAPABILITY & EXERCISING
Build capability through realistic exercising, not reassurance.
Forward State designs and facilitates exercises that help organisations practise difficult decisions, test coordination arrangements and build confidence across organisational boundaries.
Multi-agency exercises · Active-threat scenarios · Active armed offender exercises · Complex coordinated incident scenarios · Counterterrorism-related exercising where appropriate · Major-event exercises · Venue and precinct exercises · Command-post and tabletop exercises · Scenario development · Exercise design and control · Simulation · Role-based training · Facilitation · Hot debriefs · After-action review · Improvement planning
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A useful exercise should reveal where arrangements begin to strain before a real incident does.The emphasis is on interoperability, role clarity, decision-making and practical learning rather than theatrical scenarios or exercise performance.
LIVE OPERATIONS & RESPONSE SUPPORT
Operational coordination when the environment is live.
During major events or complex incidents, multiple organisations may need to make decisions from the same picture while working under different authorities, structures and responsibilities.Forward State can support incident management, event control, multi-agency coordination, situational awareness, operational decision-making and liaison across venue, operator and emergency-service arrangements.
Incident management · Event control · Command and coordination · Multi-agency interoperability · Situational awareness · Operational decision support · Venue and precinct coordination · Emergency-services liaison · Public-safety coordination · Logistics and resource coordination · Embedded advisory and coordination support
Forward State works within established organisational and statutory arrangements. The role is to strengthen coordination and capability, not replace emergency services, police command, venue authority or existing incident-management structures.
AFTER ACTION, CONTINUITY & IMPROVEMENT
Turn operational experience into stronger future capability.
The work does not end when the incident or event closes. Debriefing, continuity, restoration and practical improvement help organisations strengthen arrangements before the next period of operational demand.
Hot debriefs · After-action review · Continuity and restoration planning · Lessons management · Improvement planning · Corrective actions · Re-testing revised arrangements · Recovery support
The emphasis is on capturing lessons early, restoring operations safely and turning experience into measurable improvement.
Complex Consequence
We translate emergency management theory into practical action for high-consequence settings, ensuring teams are ready to navigate the pressure of real-world disruption.
Scalable Coordination
Our approach builds adaptable frameworks that scale from local incidents to major public events, providing clarity in decision-making when conditions change rapidly.
EXPERIENCE INTO PRACTICE
Experience shaped in complex multi-agency environments.
Forward State draws on experience from complex coordinated terrorist attack exercises, active-threat scenarios, multi-agency exercising, incident-management environments, humanitarian security and large-scale emergency operations.
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That experience is applied carefully within the Australian context — helping organisations test their own arrangements, improve interoperability and build practical capability without importing tactical or jurisdiction-specific models that do not fit the operating environment.
