Protecting fire fighters

Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre recognised in national awards

The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre is honoured to be recognised by a Highly Commended award in this year’s national Resilient Australia Awards, for the impact of its collective research program over the last decade.

The program of research projects by the Bushfire CRC was in the Nationally Significant and Cross Jurisdictional Category of the awards. It was presented in Canberra on Thursday 6 December.

The award citation acknowledged that the Bushfire CRC work had led to many community benefits across Australia and New Zealand, including:

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Better learn from this one - Creating a culture of lessons learned in a sceptical workplace

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The effect of prescribed fluid consumption on physiology and work behavior of wildfire fighters

J. Raines, Snow, R., Petersen, A., Harvey, J., Nichols, D., and Aisbett, B., “The effect of prescribed fluid consumption on physiology and work behavior of wildfire fighters”, Applied Ergonomics, 2012.

Managing the threat: beyond endurance sustaining operations

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Understanding exposures to air toxics during firefighting of bushfires in the rural urban interface

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Operational readiness in rural firefighters during bushfire suppression

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Physical Selection Tests and Volunteer Tanker-Based Bushfire Firefighters

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Muscle activation during the Pack Hike test and a critical wildfire fighting task

K. Netto, Lord, C., Petersen, A., Janssen, J. Spelt, Nichols, D., and Aisbett, B., “Muscle activation during the Pack Hike test and a critical wildfire fighting task”, Applied Ergonomics, vol. 44, no. 2, 2013.

A survey to identify physically demanding tasks performed during storm damage operations by Australian State Emergency Services personnel

B. Larsen, Graham, T., and Aisbett, B., “A survey to identify physically demanding tasks performed during storm damage operations by Australian State Emergency Services personnel”, Applied Ergonomics, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 128 - 133, 2013.

Cardiovascular Risk Screening and Stratification of Victorian Volunteer Firefighters

Presentation at Research Forum of the 2012 Bushfire CRC and AFAC Annual Conference.

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