incident support tool

Traumatic stress is an occupational hazard faced by responders and austere professionals. The Incident Support Framework provides an accessible way to assess an event for potential to cause harm, enabling proactive response.

This is step one in the Incident Support Framework, and is followed by 3-3-3 Traumatic Exposure Protocol when warranted.

Exposure appraisal allows us to:

  • Recognize when an exposure has occurred

  • Measure how high-risk the exposure was

  • Respond proactively without waiting for symptoms to develop

This Framework was developed based on extensive scientific literature showing that historic post-incident methods may unfortunately do more harm than good. Through expert analysis and years helping teams manage major incidents, we've developed this framework to make sure each responder's needs are met.

IMPLEMENTING THE INCIDENT SUPPORT FRAMEWORK

Responder Alliance offers online and live training to integrate these resources into your operations. Click here to preview and register for our online training on Incident Support for Traumatic Stress, or click here to meet with us about group training.

You can click here to download the Incident Support Tool, or click here to order IST notepads.

The scoring guides for appraising both the responder and the incident with criterion for scoring specific aspects 0, 5, or 10.