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Amendments list December 2024

• Statement of fact amendments to State Support Plan - Emergency Relief and Support following the further implementation of Emergency Relief and Support structure within Department of Communities.
• Republication of State Support Plan - Emergency Public Information, State Support Plan - Animal Welfare in Emergencies and State Hazard Plan – Human Biosecurity to acknowledge SEMC approved comprehensive review extension. No substantial amendments were made to these versions other than the extension updates. 
• SEMC approved a comprehensive review extension for the Impact Statement Guide (Attachment to Recovery Procedure 5.4) to October 2025. 

Amendments list November 2024

• Publication of State Hazard Plan – Fire following the SEMC approval of a comprehensive review extension to March 2025. No substantial amendments were made to this version other than the extension update. 

Amendments list August 2024 (pdf)

• Publication of State Hazard Plan – Energy Supply Disruption following a comprehensive review and the activation of state response arrangements during January 2024.
• Publication of State Hazard Plan – Maritime Environmental Emergencies following the 2023 exercise and targeted review of the plan.

Amendments list July 2024 (pdf)

• Publication of State Hazard Plan - Fire and State Hazard Plan - Severe Weather following further implementation of the Australian Warning System framework across cyclone, flood and storm warnings.
• Consequential amendments to the Local Recovery Guideline and resources to bring up to date with accessibility project initially carried out in 2021 across the State EM documents framework. 

Amendments list May 2024 (pdf)

• Publication of State Hazard Plan - HAZMAT updates following a comprehensive review
• Consequential amendments to migrate Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) arrangements from State Hazard Plan - HAZMAT into State Hazard Plan - Hostile Act and State Hazard Plan - Terrorist Act. 

Amendments list March 2024 (pdf)

• Statement of fact amendments to Water Corporation roles and responsibilities
• Minor formatting and typographical amendments

Amendments list February 2024 (pdf)

• Statement of fact amendments to the Traffic Management During Emergencies Guideline.
   

Amendments list December 2023 (pdf)

• Publication of the initial All- Hazards Restricted Access Permit System (RAPS) Guideline
• Publication of the State Emergency Risk Management (ERM) Guideline 
• Publication of State Hazard Plan - Severe Weather
• Consequential amendments to suite of State EM Documents reflecting the new Guidelines

Amendments list October 2023

• Publication of State Support Plan - Emergency Relief and Support (formerly Emergency Welfare) and consequential amendments to suite of State EM Documents to reflect terminology changes)
• Publication of Local Emergency Management Committee Handbook
• Consequential amendments to suite of State EM Documents reflecting the revised SEMC Capability Framework
• Consequential amendments to suite of State EM Documents reflecting the revised SEMC subcommittee structure and procedures

Amendments list May 2023

• Amendments to State EM Policy and State EM Plan 5.4 (Funding Arrangements for Emergency Response 
• Removal of State EM Policy and State EM Plan Appendix AA (COVID-19 Recovery)

Amendments list December 2022

• Update of hyperlinks to suite of EM documents to link to wa.gov.au website and minor statement of fact changes. 

Amendments list November 2022

• Accessible redesign of State Hazard Plan - Fire, including statement of fact amendments. 

Amendments list October 2022

• Comprehensive review completed for State Hazard Plan - Heatwave. 
• Statement of Fact amendments to State Hazard Plan - Fire. 

Amendments list 18 August 2022

• Initial issue of the DEMC Members Handbook - Attachment to State EM Preparedness Procedure 3.6. 
• Revocation of the DEMC Administrative Guideline. 
• Statement of fact amendments to State EM Policy and State EM Procedure 3.6. 

Amendments list 16 August 2022

• Comprehensive review completed for Traffic Management During Emergencies Guidelines, Response Checklists and Templates and Aide Memoire. 
• Accessible redesign completed for WA Community Evacuation in Emergencies Guideline.
• Revocation of the All-Hazards Flagging Guideline. 
• Amendments to State EM Policy section 5.8, State EM Plan section 5.3.2 and 5.3.3

Amendments list January 2022

• Statement of fact amendments to EM Forms 10A; 17A 

• Amendments list 15 December 2021

Summary: Extended Appendix AA (COVID-19 Recovery arrangements) in Policy and Plan
​​Initial publication of State Hazard Plans: Collapse, Earthquake and Severe Weather (Interim)
Comprehensive reviews completed for State Hazard Plans:  Tsunami; Maritime Environmental Emergencies. Accessible redesigns completed for State Hazard Plans: Energy Supply Disruption; HAZMAT Annex B SPRED

• Amendments list 30 October 2021

Summary: â€‹Incident Level Declaration review amendments to State EM Plan, Procedures and EM Form 23. Accessible redesigns completed for State Hazard Plans: Crash, Heatwave and Human Biosecurity and State Support Plan - Emergency Public Information.

• Amendments list May 2021

Summary: Accessible redesigns completed for State EM Policy, Plan, Procedure and Glossary. State Hazard Plan - HAZMAT Annex A Nuclear Powered Warship, State Support Plan - Animal Welfare in Emergencies and WA Managing Exercises Guideline.

• Amendments list 12 March 2021

Summary: Amendments from ​State EM Preparedness Procedures 1-5 review.

• Amendments list 18 December 2020

Summary: â€‹Amendments from the WA Community Evacuation Guideline comprehensive review.

• Amendments list 17 September 2020

Summary: Amendments to reflect 2020 EM Act and EM Reg updates within the State Hazard Plan -Maritime Environmental Emergencies.

• Amendments list August 2020

Summary: â€‹Statement of fact amendments to State EM Policy and Plan Appendix AA (COVID-19 recovery arrangements). Comprehensive Review of State Hazard Plan - HAZMAT SPRED.

• Amendments list 7 August 2020

Summary: â€‹Statement of fact amendments to EM forms 1-22.

• Amendments list 15 July 2020

Summary: Appendix AA (COVID-19 recovery arrangements) inserted into State EM Policy and State EM Plan. Initial publication of State Support Plan - Emergency Welfare (Interim).

• Amendments list 30 June 2020

Summary: Amendments to reflect 2020 EM Act and EM Reg updates within State EM Policy, Plan, and Procedures and State Hazard Plans: Crash, HAZMAT, Heatwave, Human Biosecurity and Search and Rescue.

• Amendments list April 2020

Summary: Amendments to clarify and remove barriers in the existing provisions that are impeding the COVID-19 response and future emergencies. Insertion of section 72A as a sunset clause to allow relevant offices to direct a person or class of persons to take any action reasonably necessary. EM Regulations - inserted allow the issuing of infringement notices for the offence of failure to comply with a direction.

• Amendments list March 2020

Summary: Prescription of Hostile Act and Heatwave as hazards and prescription of HMAs.
Amendments to HMA prescription for MEE and Human epidemic. Inclusion of DFES as a combat agency for fire suppression.