The State Emergency Management Priorities underpin and guide all decisions during a response to any emergency.
The priorities are:
- Protection and preservation of life and relief of suffering is paramount. This includes:
- Safety of emergency response personnel, and
- Safety of community members including those most at-risk in emergencies, residents and visitors or tourists
- Issuing of community information and community warnings detailing incident information that is timely, relevant and tailored to assist community members make informed decisions about their safety
- Protection of critical infrastructure and community assets that support community resilience
- Protection of residential property as a place of primary residence
- Protection of assets supporting individual livelihoods and economic production that supports individual and community financial sustainability
- Protection of environmental and conservation assets that considers the cultural, biodiversity and social values of the environment.
The department acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of the land and acknowledges and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.