Protecting fire fighters

Workshop: PROTECTING FIRE FIGHTERS

This workshop gave participants a chance to be part of discussion to improve how we adopt quality research into agency practice and across the industry. It was an opportunity to gain greater knowledge of the quality work of three Bushfire CRC research projects, combined with facilitated discussion to further the implementation enabling improved safety of fire fighters and increased capacity of specific agencies and the industry as a whole.

Researchers involved included:

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Operational readiness of rural firefighters Air Toxics

Thu, 29/07/2010 - 10:33 — David Bruce

At the rural/urban fringe, firefighters are exposed to smoke from not just vegetation, but from combinations of burning houses, cars and other materials. These firefighters are less likely than urban firefighters to be wearing breathing apparatus, and may be more vulnerable to health risks posed by burning organic compounds that have been, until now, mostly unmeasured.

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Effective Incident Management Organising

Thu, 29/07/2010 - 10:32 — David Bruce

Better management of emergency incidents can reduce any adverse consequences on communities. As such, the aim of this project was to better understand how multi-agency emergency management coordination at regional and state levels could be improved.