The 67 recommendations from Victoria's Black Saturday royal commission covered everything from bushfire warning systems and the "stay or go" policy to the placing of human life above all else.
If Victoria's Fire Services Commissioner, Craig Lapsley, had his way, they might also have included a dress code.
During the past week, Victoria endured its most serious bushfire threat since the 2009 fires that claimed 173 lives.
Certainly, the latest fires were less ferocious, they burned mostly in less-difficult countryside, and they were not preceded by a decade-long drought that left the landscape at its most volatile.
But not a single fatality resulted from the latest blazes that have ravaged more than 330,000 hectares, and they've caused only a handful of injuries.
Much of this, according to the authorities, is due to the lessons learned on Black Saturday and at the royal commission that investigated the systems in place - and not in place - and the hierarchies and rivalries of the various emergency services, among other things.
Mr Lapsley, whose job is a creation of the royal commission, described last Sunday, a day when 200 fires were fought and at least 20 homes were destroyed, as the most serious fire day in Victoria in five years.
Not of Black Saturday proportions, admittedly, but thanks to the better systems in place, it was unlikely to be.
"It's not the same as 2009 .. that came after 13 years of drought," Mr Lapsley said.
"They have been intense, fast-moving and in some cases have been that fast-moving they have moved onto properties with limited time to warn residents."
One of the most obvious differences between the past week and 2009 is the clarity, frequency and means by which fire warnings were issued.
Having considered research that concluded most deaths in bushfires occurred when people left their homes too late, a major recommendation of the royal commission was that warnings should be more definite.
As a result, the ultimate emergency-level warning contains an instruction that it is too late to leave and residents should stay and defend their property.
Combined with greater co-operation and clearer focus among agencies and the public, the new procedures are credited with making life-and-death differences during the past week.
"We know that it's a community-based issue," Mr Lapsley said. "Fire in Victoria is not the fire authorities' issue; it's our issue collectively.
"Every government department, every agency has now got emergency management and fire as the centre of their business.
"So whether it's education or transport or VicRoads or public transport or public health or any of those, it is now front and centre. We hold them accountable to be part of it.
"It is no longer just the CFA's problem, or Vic Pol's problem."
But Mr Lapsley wants things to get even better.
A major area of improvement is discouraging firefighting heroics among urban hunter-protectors wearing thongs and T-shirts.
He suggests advertising along the lines of the confronting road-safety campaign run by Victoria's Transport Accident Commission (TAC).
"Boys, young men, males will become very active and want to do something," he said. "They'll become protectors.
"They'll want to get out and do it and they won't think about what they're dressed in.
"You're playing with fire. And I mean that.
"We've got programs running now to better understand the behavioural and attitudinal change. It has got to be a generational change in the way we behave around fire."
Metropolitan Fire Brigade assistant chief officer Rob Purcell believes certain public attitudes have changed for the better since Black Saturday.
One of the more noticeable was the absence of spectators.
"We didn't have to turn people away from roadblocks ... we weren't bothered by people coming and wanting to rubberneck," Mr Purcell aid.
The fires in Victoria are expected to continue burning for several days, and there are warnings the fire season is far from over, so it isn't time to be too free with praise.
But if the bushfire royal commission saved one life this week, it has served its purpose.
