The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) is the industry body for fire, land management and emergency service organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
AFAC was established by its members in 1993 to collaborate on matters of international, national and regional importance. By sharing each others extensive capabilities, experience and knowledge AFAC members expect communities to benefit from the economies of scale, reduction in the duplication of effort and the strengthening of the industry capability.
Vision
Fire and emergency services strengthened through sharing, collaboration and innovation.
Chief Executive Officer: Stuart Ellis, AM
Executive Assistant to CEO: Lynette White Ph: +61 3 9418 5206
AFAC Members are drawn from every state and territory in Australia and New Zealand and from around the Pacific. It is their accumulated knowledge, strength of experience and desire to learn that creates the foundation on which AFAC continues to build.
The membership of AFAC comprises those organisations that have responsibility for the delivery of land management, community safety, emergency services, or emergency support services. With a career workforce of over thirty thousand employees, and over 200,000 volunteers, AFAC members operate in a dynamic, complex and challenging environment.
Current AFAC Members that Constitute the AFAC Council:
- ACT Emergency Services Agency
- ACT Parks and Conservation Service
- ACT State Emergency Service
- Airservices Australia
- Bushfires NT
- CFA
- Department of Environment and Conservation, WA
- Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, SA
- Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing, QLD
- Department of Sustainability and Environment, VIC
- Emergency Management Queensland
- Department of Fire and Emergency Services,WA
- Fire & Rescue NSW
- Forestry Tasmania
- ForestrySA
- Forests NSW
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne
- National Rural Fire Authority - New Zealand
- New Zealand Fire Service
- Northern Territory Emergency Service
- Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service
- NSW Rural Fire Service
- NSW State Emergency Service
- Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW
- Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania
- Parks Victoria
- Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- South Australian Country Fire Service
- South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
- South Australian State Emergency Service
- State Emergency Service Tasmania
- Tasmania Fire Service
- Victoria State Emergency Service
Current AFAC Affiliate Members (not on Council):
- Attorney-General's Department
- Australasian Road Rescue Organisation (ARRO)
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Department of Conservation New Zealand
- EMQUAL
- HQPlantations Pty Ltd
- Hong Kong Fire Services Department
- Melbourne Water
- Office of the Fire Services Commissioner Victoria
- Pacific Islands Fire Service Association (PIFSA)
- Papua New Guinea Fire Service
- South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM)
