Meetings will be automatically planned within 48 hours for:
• Child Death
• Suicide Death
• Co-worker injury
• Significant event where victim is a relative or friend of department member
• Any traumatic death
Meetings strongly suggested for:
• Multiple patients with serious injuries
• Combative patient
• Abusive patient
• Equipment or system breakdown with negative results
• Suicide attempt
• Serious injury to child
• Any death
• When member of responding team shows stress or requests a meeting
Calling a Debriefing: The Duty Officer should initiate debriefing on the shift when the response occurred. A call should be made directly to team leader (Judi or Rich Madan) or to district CISM liaison (Maxx Jones) as soon as possible. This contact should be entered into the daily log.
If a debriefing is requested by a responder who was on the call, this should also go through the duty officer on shift at the time of request. If the duty officer is not available, the request can be given to the district liaison (Max Jones). Concern by other member(s) should be directed to the duty officer on the incident if possible for review and follow-up.
District members who would be attending will be notified by the noon radio check as well as by a phone call via the front office (or someone available to make the calls).
Debriefing Ground Rules:
• Attended by on the Department members involved in the current incident.
• Debriefing is held in a location away from the fire department.
• All responders are requested to attend to support the team, however it is not mandatory.
• Discussions at the meeting are to be strictly confidential.
• Participants at meetings will only address issues related to them during the incident and after. This is not a run review.
• All attempts will be made to limit the meeting to 60 minutes.
• Participants will NOT be on call during the meeting. All radios and phones are to be turned off or left elsewhere.
• There is no rank during the meeting.