Best practice for tracking and responding to potentially traumatic event exposure

The AFAC Mental Health and Wellbeing Group (MHWG) is a forum in which mental health and wellbeing issues, initiatives and strategies related to wellbeing of fire and emergency services workers (both career and volunteer) can be shared, and where appropriate, developed in a collaborative and coordinated manner. 

The MHWG is seeking a comparative analysis of psychosocial risk management systems, infrastructure, assessment tools and recording platforms in Australia and internationally to determine their strengths and weaknesses with regards to: 

• tracking and responding to cumulative exposure of fire and emergency service personnel to potentially traumatic events
• undertaking live reporting and recording over a period of time. 

This project will have two phases:  

• Phase 1 – Best practice review  
• Phase 2 – Needs assessment and evaluation of available systems for use by fire and emergency service agencies. 

This project will support Australian fire and emergency service agencies to assess current practice against international best practice and select suitable risk management systems that include tracking of cumulative exposure to potentially traumatic events.