Joint personnel recovery (JPR) can compromise Aviation Safety should the ability to recover personnel transported aboard the aircraft who are in need of JPR be ineffective.
DASR does not specifically regulate JPR; however flights must comply with other DASR regulations as applicable.
JPR provides a mechanism to reduce, wherever possible, the risk to the lives and welfare of personnel as a result of Defence aviation activity.
The Australian National Search and Rescue (NATSAR) , comprising representatives from the Commonwealth, States and Department of Defence, sponsors the NATSAR Manual (NATSARM). The ADF is responsible for providing SAR coverage for military assets and within the Australian Search and Rescue Region (SRR), including visiting military foreign forces.
The ADF recognises JPR as the mechanism for recovering all isolated personnel from all environments at all levels of hostility. As part of JPR, SAR operations are those operations executed in a permissive environment, while JPR operations are executed in an uncertain or hostile environment.
CJOPS has established a policy that while the NATSARM is accepted as the Australian standard procedural guide for coordinating peacetime SAR activities within the Australian SRR, the NATSARM is not to be used as the authority for recovery operations. Under this policy, CJOPS has published a comprehensive JPR Manual that is intended to achieve Defence JPR requirements.
DASR does not specifically regulate aeromedical evacuation; however flights must comply with other DASR regulations as applicable.
Defence Health Manual, Part 17, Chapter 1 prescribes the policy for rotary wing aeromedical evacuation training in Defence.