Mountain Rescue recognizes that the well-being of the patient and/or missing person is paramount and is, therefore, the guiding principle in terms of which all operations are planned and carried out. It therefore undertakes to:

• Provide an efficient and effective call out system to ensure that adequate resources (manpower and equipment) are made available for an operation to be carried out.
• Maintain and continuously improve its skills by ensuring that its team members are trained in terms of nationally and internationally accepted standards and practice.
• Assist and support all those authorities who have statutory obligations with respect to searching for and/or the evacuation of missing, sick, injured or dead persons, as well as any other authority or voluntary organisation wherever its expertise, experience and/or availability of resources (manpower and/or equipment) can be of assistance.
• Ensure that its members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct and that it will be responsible for the discipline of its members.