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A Review Of The Standard Of Care Owed To Australian Firefighters From A Safety Perspective—The Differences Between Academic Theory And Legal Obligations, Greg Penney, Greg Smith, Simon Ridge, Marcus Cattani

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Working in high consequence yet low frequency, events Australian fire service Incident Controllers are required to make critical decisions with limited information in time-poor environments, whilst balancing competing priorities and pressures, to successfully solve dynamic large-scale disaster situations involving dozens of personnel within the Incident Management Team, including of front-line responders from multiple jurisdictions. They must also do this within the boundaries of public and political expectations, industrial agreements, and the legal requirement to maintain a safe workplace for all workers, inclusive of volunteers. In addition to these operational objectives, fire services must also provide realistic training to prepare frontline …