Office of the Inspector-General Emergency Management
Editor: The Emergency Management Assurance Framework (the Framework) has supported all levels of Queensland’s disaster management arrangements to continually improve disaster management performance for the past five years.
Developed in collaboration with Queensland’s disaster management practitioners, the Framework empowers front-line disaster management service providers. It has included the Standard for Disaster Management in Queensland (the Standard), which has defined the outcomes that we strive to achieve through policy, doctrine and practice. The past five years have also resulted in lessons about the Framework and Standard themselves. In keeping with the Office’s function to regularly review and assess disaster management standards, the Office has once again turned to the sector to ‘learn’ those lessons.
The result here is a contemporary Framework that is easy to understand, and which sets the context for two Standards that together allow stakeholders to better apply and measure their own progress. The Queensland disaster management sector has always risen to the challenge of providing the best possible services to Queenslanders. This refreshed Framework provides the context for this continued pursuit of excellence.
I reiterate my thanks of five years ago to all of our disaster management practitioners from across the State for their contribution as we build a more resilient Queensland.
