Definitions - EFPA (Emp Fam Ass Pro)/ Work Place Flashcards
means the team consisting of Peer Support Volunteers coordinated through the
Service to respond to incidents where critical incident stress may occur and to assist members and their families to cope
after becoming involved in a traumatic critical incident. CIRT members are trained in trauma response measures and are
qualified to lead defusing sessions. CIRT members are not counsellors.
Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT)
means physical and psychological symptoms experienced by a member as a result of being
involved in a traumatic critical incident.
Critical Incident Stress
means a scheduled formal meeting specifically set up for members directly involved in the traumatic
critical incident to discuss reactions to the traumatic event in confidence with a qualified mental health professional. The
debriefing session takes place a few days after the conclusion of the traumatic critical incident, in a secure location where
disruptions can be eliminated and can last up to two and one half (2.5) hours. The Employee Family Assistance Program
Liaison/Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) Coordinator will work with the Officer in Charge, CIRT Peer Support
Volunteer and/or the qualified mental health professional to schedule the session. Attendance is mandatory for the members
directly involved but active participation in the discussion is voluntary.
Debriefing Session
means an immediate informal meeting attended by an individual or a group of members involved in a
traumatic critical incident to assess the need for further assistance prior to the end of shift. The defusing session takes
place immediately after the conclusion of the traumatic critical incident in a secure location where disruptions can be
eliminated and lasts for approximately fifteen (15) to thirty (30) minutes. Two (2) Peer Support Volunteers normally lead
these meetings with Employee Family Assistance Program support if necessary. Attendance is mandatory but active
participation in the discussion is voluntary.
Defusing sessions may be conducted by a mental health professional assisted by members of the Critical Incident
Response Team and are not operational debriefings.
Defusing Session
means a session involving firearm exercises undertaken with a qualified
firearms instructor. This session does NOT consist of a qualification standard and is NOT an operational debriefing. Rather,
a post incident firearms exposure session consists of an individual course of fire intended to be educational, to provide
reassurance, and to promote officers’ confidence with their firearm after an officer-involved shooting incident. The post
incident firearms exposure session will take place prior to being returned to full duties after a shooting incident.
Post incident firearms exposure sessions are mandatory for officers who discharge their firearms in the line of duty and
officers determined by their Unit Commander to be directly impacted by the incident. However, any officer involved in a
shooting incident may request to participate in a post incident firearms exposure session. Post incident firearms exposure
sessions do not apply to the discharge of a firearm for the purpose of dispatching an animal, unless circumstances suggest
otherwise.
Post Incident Firearm Exposure Session
means the assistance provided by the Employee and Family Assistance Program provider or Psychological
Services to members and their families in locating a community mental health professional or other service suitable to the
presenting difficulty.
Referral
means any person who performs work or supplies services for monetary compensation, and includes a contractor
or a volunteer such as an auxiliary member.
Worker
means any land, premises, location or thing at, upon, in or near, which Service business is being conducted.
This can include, but is not limited to:
Service facilities/buildings
Service vehicles
courthouses
any other location where Service business is being conducted.
Workplace
means the exercise of physical force, or attempt, by a person against a worker in a workplace that
causes or could cause physical injury to the worker. This includes a statement or behaviour that it is reasonable for the
worker to interpret as a threat to exercise physical force against the worker.
Workplace Violence
means engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably
to be known to be unwelcome, or workplace sexual harassment. Harassment may be a one (1) time incident or repeated
incidents. Workplace harassment does not include discipline or performance management.
Workplace Harassment
means engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a
workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, where the course of comment or
conduct is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, or making a sexual solicitation or advance where the
person making the solicitation or advance is in a position to confer, grant or deny a benefit or advancement to the worker
and the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the solicitation or advance is unwelcome.
Workplace Sexual Harassment
