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What are the Most Common Situations that can cause Critical Incident Stress?
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The
events in an emergency service workers job that usually create the most
significant critical incident stress reactions are: 1) Line of duty death; 2)
Serious line of duty injury; 3) Suicide of a co-worker; 4) Multi-casualty
incident; 5) Injury or death resulting from operational procedures; 6) Events
involving children; 7) Victim is related or known; or 8) Mission failure.
Although these are typically the most powerful events that a worker may
encounter, almost any incident has the potential to cause Critical Incident
Stress (CIS) if that worker is vulnerable and the situation is “right”.
