AFAC is the Australian and New Zealand National Council for fire and emergency services.
Our purpose
AFAC, as the National Council for fire and emergency services, supports the sector to create safer, more resilient communities. We drive national consistency through collaboration, innovation and partnerships. We deliver enhanced capability by developing doctrine and supporting operations.
Service delivery
- Facilitation and collaboration – sharing knowledge, lessons and challenges.
- National authority – trusted source of advice on the sector.
- Delivery partner – can be relied upon to deliver national projects and other initiatives.
- Forward looking – using data and trend analysis to focus on the future.
Collaborating and sharing knowledge
Through our collaboration framework, AFAC assists the emergency management sector to identify and achieve strategic and operational priorities. Collaboration occurs through sharing knowledge and exchanging insights, exploring opportunities and creating solutions.
This approach enables members to consider common challenges, generate solutions, develop positions and inspire new directions in practice.
Our publications –
doctrine, case studies, research articles and more – are grounded in research utilisation, contemporary international thinking and lessons learnt from real situations.
Enabling national capability
AFAC facilitates resource sharing of firefighters, specialists and aircraft, enabling the national and where required, international response to large scale emergency events, delivering firefighting resources through the AFAC National Resource Sharing Centre and aircraft contracted through the National Aerial Firefighting Centre.
Developed and maintained by AFAC, AIIMS is the nationally endorsed system for managing incidents. AIIMS provides a common incident management system for all responding organisations and personnel, enabling seamless integration of activities and resources for the effective and safe resolution of any incident.
Standards development
AFAC representatives lead the development on many Australian and International Standards Committees. AFAC and Standards Australia are signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding in the development and revision of standards relating to the management of fire related risks, fire protection and fire safety.
Our maintenance of collaborative procurement arrangements benefits all agencies through their tendering processes, and keeps members updated on current practice in procurement.