The NSW SES is celebrating 60 years of service this year, the organisation began in 1955 following disastrous floods across NSW that caused major loss of life as well as massive damage to property and infrastructure. The NSW SES has grown and diversified since its inception and has been instrumental in the response to many disasters and emergencies.
The NSW SES is the combat agency for Floods, Tsunami and Storm operations. The SES also provides emergency response in the areas of road crash rescue, vertical rescue, flood rescue, land searches and many other supporting roles to other Emergency Services. The SES volunteers in their orange uniforms (jaffa’s) are often referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife of the Emergency Services”.
For me the SES has been a part of my life for more than 22 years. Through this series of Geo-Art caches I want to share some of my experiences and the roles of the SES.
SES Emergency Management train closely with a wide range of community, local government and other emergency services to raise the level of awareness in relation to disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Through a greater appreciation of emergency risk mitigation, and support in the implementation of planned strategies, community resilience is enhanced. The Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS) is the nationally recognised system of incident management for the nation's emergency service agencies. The organisational principles and structure used to manage large emergencies (e.g. floods, storms, cyclones etc) utilising the all agencies approach. AIIMS was first developed in the 1980s as a derivative of the United States’ NIIMS, and is based on the principles of management by objectives, functional management and span of control.
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