The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) is the peak 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.
Membership
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 organisation 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.
AFAC members are:
- AirServices Australia
- Australian Capital Territory Emergency Services Agency
- ACT Parks, Conservation and Lands
- Australian Council of State Emergency Services
- Bushfires NT
- Country Fire Authority, Victoria
- Country Fire Service, South Australia
- Department of Emergency Services - Queensland
- Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW
- Department of Environment & Conservation, Western Australia
- Department for Environment & Heritage, SA
- Department of Sustainability & Environment, Victoria
- Emergency Management Australia
- Fire & Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia
- Forests New South Wales
- Forestry Plantations - Queensland
- Forestry SA
- Forestry Tasmania
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne
- New South Wales Fire Brigades
- New South Wales Rural Fire Service
- New Zealand Fire Service
- New Zealand Rural Fire Authority
- Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service
- Parks Victoria
- Parks & Wildlife, Tasmania
- Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services
- Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
- Tasmania Fire Service
Affiliate members whose interests are consistent with AFAC's Goals and Objectives are:
- Bureau of Meteorology
- CSIRO Forestry & Forest Products
- Hong Kong Fire Services Department
- Melbourne Water
- Pacific Islands Fire Service Association (PIFSA)
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- Papua New Guinea Fire Service
- Australasian Road Rescue Organisation (ARRO)
- South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission (SAFECOM)
