Summer 2012-2013 RESEARCH INFORMS FIREFIGHTER SAFETY LEARNING LESSONS FIRE AUSTRALIA FIRE LAW: FROM THE LONDON CONFERENCE MYTHS BOMBINGS WRAP AND FEARS XXXXXXXX 2 | FIRE AUSTRALIA SUMMER 2012-2013 14 34 32 SUMMER 2012-2013 Joint editors Joseph Keller (FPA Australia) TEL +61 3 9890 1544 Contents EMAIL [email protected] Welcome Lessons learned from the London Bombings of July 2005 Nathan Maddock (Bushfire CRC) 5 34 TEL +61 3 9412 9605 News Water—the essential EMAIL [email protected] extinguishant, part four: 6 38 Firefighting foams, the pioneers Fire Australia 2012 brings Shesiedo Ringdahl (AFAC) and contemporary uses TEL +61 3 9419 2388 together key industry players 14 Mental trauma— EMAIL [email protected] FireNotes—a shared resource a workplace casualty of fire knowledge 42 Fire Protection Association Australia 18 AIIMS 4— Fresh challenges (FPA Australia) ABN 30 005 366 576 the situation with intelligence EDITORIAL PANEL Barry Lee oam, for new EMA chief 44 Peter Johnson, Graham Harris 22 Blast from Principles of fire safety, part 9(ii): NATIONAL PRESIDENT Trevor Voevodin the past CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Scott Williams Building Code of Australia— 46 PO Box 1049, Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia 26 achieving code compliance Calendar TEL +61 3 9890 1544 FAX +61 3 9890 1577 Firefighter research 48 EMAIL [email protected] needs you TAC & SIG 28 update WEBSITE www.fpaa.com.au Fears and myths 49 Australasian Fire and in fire law Standards Australia Emergency Service Authorities 32 update Council (AFAC) ABN 52 060 049 327 50 PRESIDENT Lee Johnson afsm VICE PRESIDENT Greg Mullins afsm Advertiser listing About Fire Australia 2 Pertronic CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Stuart Ellis am Fire Australia is a joint publication of the Fire 4 Fire Factory Level 5, 340 Albert Street, Protection Association Australia (FPA Australia), 9 FireSense East Melbourne VIC 3002, Australia the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service 13 Bulbeck TEL +61 3 9419 2388 Authorities Council (AFAC) and the Bushfire 21 Alan Wilson Insurance Brokers FAX +61 3 9419 2389 Cooperative Research Centre (Bushfire CRC). 25 Victaulic EMAIL [email protected] We aim to bring the latest news, 31 Protection Engineering WEBSITE www.afac.com.au developments and technical information to the 31 FPA Australia Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre fire protection industry, emergency services 33 Fire Protection Technologies (Bushfire CRC) ABN 71 103 943 755 and fire research organisations. 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I encourage you to visit the conference site at www.afac2013.org to keep up to date By Stuart Ellis AM as we announce keynote speakers and, in Chief Executive Officer due course, the conference program. The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) Call for Abstracts is open and we invite you to submit an abstract with a focus on the conference theme, Shaping Tomorrow t has been a busy 12 months for fire of the ACT Emergency Services Agency Together, which reflects the need for the and emergency management agencies (ESA), shares his vision and views on emergency services to work collaboratively in Australia. As we commence the new national emergency management on with the community and other partners Iyear, it is an opportunity to reflect on page 22. Mr Crosweller has recently from the education, health, business the many recent successes and lessons been appointed as the Director-General, and research sectors, and all levels of identified. AFAC continues to provide Emergency Management Australia (EMA), government, to shape our future. leadership and advocates with agency Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Specifically, the conference will address members representing AFAC on more Department. After almost 30 years in a number of principal topics. These than 20 national committees, boards and the industry he is well placed to lead in include the need for transformational associations. this role and we congratulate him on change within the sector, creating public A key piece of doctrine for the his appointment. value, managing large-scale disasters emergency management sector is the I offer an extended thank you to Mark and how emergency management is Australasian Inter-Service Incident for his significant contribution to AFAC responding to future challenges. Management System (AIIMS). It is in his roles as a Board Director, Chair of A Research Forum will be held on day our common language and operating the Conference Program Committee for one of the conference, featuring framework. The AFAC Council has the 2011 Sydney Conference, as a member research across all hazards. Concluding endorsed the recommendations on changes of the Knowledge Management Group, the conference will be a professional to the current version of the AIIMS and as an integral member of the AFAC development program. Early Bird Doctrine (AIIMS 3rd Edition revised) and Council. His selection as Director-General, registrations open 4 March 2013. provided guidance regarding the AIIMS Emergency Management Australia, Having officially commenced in the role Doctrine Manual 4th Edition. The process is an acknowledgement of his ability, as CEO of AFAC, I would like to take the for the development of the AIIMS Doctrine his professionalism and the wealth of opportunity to thank Naomi Brown for her Manual 4th Edition for publication in experience that he will bring to the role. tremendous work in leading AFAC over early 2013 has also been endorsed. On Recently, AFAC in partnership with the past six years. Naomi’s dedication and page 44 you can read more on the 4th Motorola Solutions brought Gary Reason, leadership have been outstanding, and I Edition and the revised approach to Director of Operational Resilience and wish her all the best as she embarks on the the way incident controllers and their Training at the London Fire Brigade, UK, next chapter of her life. teams manage information and develop to Australia and New Zealand to present I hope 2013 is a successful and safe year incident intelligence. to our members, and representatives from for all. I look forward to meeting you at Mark Crosweller, former Commissioner other sectors, on the lessons learned from future events. FIRE AUSTRALIA SUMMER 2012-2013 | 5 NEWSXXXXXXXX The 22 February 2011 earthquake in New PHOTO COURTESY OF NZ CIVIL DEFENCE Zealand was one of the few natural disasters in our region to directly Considerations of affect a CBD. Management in New Zealand—to review emergency response and recovery for the two-month period immediately following the the Christchurch earthquake. Stuart Ellis, CEO AFAC and Principal and Director of Leading Emergency Services, was a member of the Review Team. Mr Ellis hosted seminars throughout various Australian earthquake states and territories. The seminars presented and examined the emergency response and recovery issues relevant to How to manage a major emergency