2021 EMPA Australia award winners

EMPA Australia Awards for Excellence in Communication

The Annual EMPA Awards for Excellence in Emergency Communication have been established to recognise those who have made a significant contribution to emergency communications in Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian EMPA Awards 2021 were presented at the conference dinner and awards evening on Thursday 3 June 2021. 

For emergency communication - Readiness and Resilience

A project or activity that contributes to improved community preparedness and/or resilience.

Winner
Articulous
Tourism Crisis Communication Toolkit and crisis communication workshops

Highly Commended
ABC Emergency
ABC Emergency takes a leap

For emergency communication - Response

Communicating effectively during an emergency response.

Winner
Bureau of Meteorology
NSW Flood Emergency: 2021

For emergency communication - Recovery

Supporting the recovery of a community impacted by an emergency.

Winner
Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
Supporting community recovery following the Black Summer bushfires

For media

In-depth and balanced coverage of a topic that increases public understanding of a hazard or an emergency response.
Comprehensive and accurate reporting before or during an emergency response, contributing to public safety.

Winner
DMA Creative, Northern Pictures, ABC
Big Weather (and how to survive it)

For published research that advances emergency communication by:

  • Improving community preparedness and/or resilience

  • Increasing the effectiveness of communication during an emergency response;

  • Enabling agencies to better support communities recovering from an adverse event.

Winner
Country Fire Authority
The use of bushfire self-evacuation archetypes research as a lens to inform community safety approaches