“Can front line emergency workers sue for trauma compo for the horrors they see?”

I would have hoped not. If they can, anyone who tries it on should be advised to look for a different job. But why ask the question when a judge has already found that a driver “owed a duty of care not to cause psychiatric injury to Senior Constable David Caffrey, who was called to attend an accident caused by the intoxicated motorist's negligent driving”.

On this occasion, I am 100% with the insurer who rightly claimed that the police officer should be able to deal with such things.

But, this time wasting, 'personal injury’ lawyer eventually gets around to telling us that is OK in certain circumstances, even though he caught our attention by asking the question!

It has been acceptable for lawyers to advertise their services for some time now, and Bennett & Philp lawyers have just had a freebie.

Something about if you can`t take the heat get out of the kitchen.......

No! It's what you sign up for and part of the job description. Suggest all would be applicants do a couple of seasons in an abattoir to get used to blood, guts, the smell that goes with it along with the very obvious terror of sentient beings, death and dying.

A period of military service and the horror that all too often is an integral part of it! Acclimatise some of the Nurse Nightengales among us to some very harsh realities. If they came from the bush? Or exposed to the foregoing?

This is not a job for the weak-kneed or lily-livered. None of the folk before you, that did these thankless jobs, were ever compensated for the horrors they were exposed to!

None!

As the saying goes, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Alan B.

the rise of litigation as a result of training or brainwashing more and more lawyers is poison for our community. While I have great admiration for emergency workers it is what they sign up for. The Government should provide all the support they need. It is sickening to see ads on television by sleazy law firms trying to drum up business to anyone that has had an accident. Less and less people earning an honest living and more and more money for lawyers to turn people into victims. No real winners.

runner

I agree with your post.

So l refer to any application of a person applying to the position Police Officer.

They file their application, if accepted they go to Goulburn Academy for training (if that's the relevant academy of training in 2019).

They then pass and are allocated for service in a relative Police Station.

So what happens, they are introduced into that Police Station's policies.

So therefore, anything they learned at the Police Academy - depending on the Officer in Charge of said station - goes with his/their policies.

So I ask a simple question, if our "new" Officers to Policing - fresh from the Academy, aren't given any support when horrendous events come into their pervue, and don't believe they are able to seek professional assistance - albeit said person believes they will be seen by their co-workers/peers as being "soft" - I say to those in charge …..so what has changed since the 1980's, that you haven't addressed this issue to our fellow Police Officers, at ALL levels in the Department of Policing.

Time to change is up - it is "imperative" our Offices on the front line be provided all assistance with their care and well-being when attending "horrendous" cases.

Trent Johnson's greed & is giving me the horrors, I demand compensation !