2019 Bulletin SAVER-EMERG 19-191

Question 1

What does SAVER stand for?

Answer 1

Stress and Violence in fire-based EMS Responders

Question 2

What type of promotional material was given out to promote the SAVER and EMERGENCY program?

Answer 2

• Postings for the fire stations

- A direct link to EMERG on all operations iPad and iPhone

Question 3

Information submitted to EMERG, is it accessible to the department or the labor union?

Answer 3

No, it is not.

Question 4

Who has access to the information submitted to SAVER-EMERG?

Answer 4

Only the research staff.

Question 5

Why SAVER-EMERG program?

Answer 5

Because firefighters are exposed to verbal and physical violence experienced on incidents.

**They address the EMS aspect of fire—which can run as high as 60-90% of the work.

Question 6

Is there a national or standardized system to capture exposures to verbal and physical violence that do not result in injury to fire-based EMS responders?

Answer 6

No, there is not. This program will collect the data.

Question 7

Who do you report any incident of verbal or physical violence to? What program?

Answer 7

EMERG

***** we are still mandated to report unlawful acts of misconduct.

Question 8

How much has the EMS calls increased since 1980?

Answer 8

320%

Question 9

Is there a belief that the increase in EMS responses by 320%, since 1980, have a profound impact on EMS responders?

Answer 9

YES! And the SAVER-EMERG program is trying to gather data to prove it.

Question 10

What is the goal of the SAVER program?

Answer 10

To prove there is damage being done to EMS responders physically and emotionally, by gathering data, and advocating for resources should the results reinforce the initial belief.

Question 11

What is the difference between SAVER and EMERG?

Answer 11

SAVER - is the actual project

EMERG - is the data collection software used for SAVER (project)