About
This initial engagement has now closed
Thank you for your feedback on this initial engagement. Stay updated via the updates page for future opportunities to contribute.
What is being decided?
Provide your feedback on what a disaster resilient South Australia looks like and your ideas on how we can get there.
We are experiencing emergencies more frequently and with more intensity. Emergencies have long-lasting and often devastating effects on our environment and our physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
The Disaster Resilience Strategy will make recommendations on areas where Government, business, the non-government sector and communitiesContinue reading
About
This initial engagement has now closed
Thank you for your feedback on this initial engagement. Stay updated via the updates page for future opportunities to contribute.
What is being decided?
Provide your feedback on what a disaster resilient South Australia looks like and your ideas on how we can get there.
We are experiencing emergencies more frequently and with more intensity. Emergencies have long-lasting and often devastating effects on our environment and our physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
The Disaster Resilience Strategy will make recommendations on areas where Government, business, the non-government sector and communities can work alongside each other to make South Australia a more resilient State.
How can your input influence the decision?
This project is using a co-design method where individuals, communities, business, government and non-government are involved from the start to ensure that the result is meaningful and relevant.
Your input will help to define a shared understanding of what it means to be disaster resilient in South Australia and will help identify new ways that can make South Australia more resilient to future emergencies and disasters. Your contributions in this early stage of the project will influence the areas the Strategy focuses on as it is developed.
A report outlining recommendations will be presented to the State Emergency Management Committee for endorsement in 2018.
Get involved
You can provide your feedback by:
Have your say before comments close 5pm Wednesday January 31 2018.
Background
An independent review of the emergency management response to the extreme weather event that took place in South Australia between 28 September and 5 October 2016 and included the statewide blackout, was led by former South Australia Police Commissioner Gary Burns who investigated the adequacy of the state’s prevention, preparedness, response and recovery arrangements.
Recommendation 33 of the report focused on disaster resilience outcomes:
Develop practical policy outcomes to support resilience (e.g. the 72- hour model) and promote this broadly to community through media, awareness campaigns, policies etc. Research should be undertaken to gain insight into the types of messaging and activities that have the most impact on sustained behaviour change within the community before committing to a particular model.
Read the full report and the Government's response.
