There are fourteen Local Emergency Management Committees in WA, which connect to every local government council, commenced over twenty years ago, to allow for collaboration with local support organisations, hazard management agencies, and industry representatives, to collectively build a resilient community that is prepared to respond and recover from an emergency Most LEMC and EHO’S were not really involved in the covid outbreak and issues such as waste management potentially infected clothes, wipes and medical supplies were often sent to landfill without consideration of leaching etc as it was considered an engineering issue and not a public health issue.