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Irish National CISM Conference for Emergency Services

September 9th 2009 - Brochure now available 

Department of Psychology, NUI Maynooth:


The European Office of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) presents the

Irish National CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) Conference

with Professor Jeffrey T. Mitchell (co-founder of the ICISF) as keynote speaker.

More information to follow.

Alternatively, please contact Sharon Gallagher

Phone - 087 936 937 8  Email - sharon.gallagher@nuim.ie

 

The Ambulance Service College in Dublin recently held a Major Incident Exercise to coincide with students being taught the Major Incident Module.

The exercise involved volunteers from the Defence Forces, Order of Malta & Civil Defence, as well as students of the National Ambulance Service College, Dublin. Around SEVENTY volunteers from the various agencies acted as casualties for the incident. The services of Ann Crofts, a Professional Makeup & Moulage Artist from Wales was utilised and you can see some images of her work in the attached slideshow.

The Incident was described as "A major Explosion with building collapse and damage" at a Defence Forces site.

The response was combined between the Medical Corps of the Defence Forces and the National Ambulance Service.

Sincere thanks to:

  • Civil Defence for the use of Ratra House in the Phoenix Park to stage the exercise
  • Volunteers of the Civil Defence who acted as Casualties
  • Defence Forces Volunteer Casualties
  • Order of Malta Casualties
  • Members of the Civil Defence for setting up lighting, comminications and site security
  • Ann Crofts for her Professional Makeup Services - enquiries 0863612435)
  • National Ambulance Service College Tutors - Mark T, Vincent D & Tom B for supervising & planning of the event
  • The Student Paramedics from the HSE and Defence Forces for their diligence and best efforts during the exercise!
  • Anyone else we forgot to mention!!

Click Here for the slideshow of images (15MB PDF File)

Further enquires regarding images etc to mtyrrell@nats.ie

 

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