Social media comment policy

We use social media to engage with and inform the public about the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS), including its highly-skilled and dedicated workforce and its various and evolving models of care.

We maintain an official presence on FacebookInstagramX and LinkedIn.

Meta (Facebook and Instagram)X and LinkedIn control and operate their respective platforms, each with their own community standards and terms of use.

The following House Rules apply to keep our QAS social media pages friendly for all. Comments and direct messages that go against these rules won’t be tolerated and violations may cause the author to be blocked from our page.

When contributing, do not post any material that contains:

  • hate speech
  • profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
  • comments that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory
  • offensive imagery
  • defamation to a person or people
  • name calling and/or personal attacks
  • spam comments from individuals or groups, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on one or more posts on a single profile
  • personal or private information about you or another individual (including identifying information, email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses and medical information)
  • false representation of another individual, organisation, government or entity
  • promotion of a product, business, company or organisation.

    We retain the right to remove any content that does not comply with the House Rules or we deem inappropriate.

QAS employees should refer to the QAS Media, Communications and Personal Social Media Standards policy before posting on social media sites.