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AUSTRALIAN EMERGENCY MANUALS SERIES

PART IV Skills for Emergency Services Personnel

Manual 34

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Second Edition

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA

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First published 1992 Second Edition 1997 ISBN 0 642 27135 6 Edited and published byEmergency Management Australia Typeset by Director Publishing and Visual Communications, Department of Defence Printed in Australia by Better Printing NOTE: Expansion of the Australian Emergency Manuals Series In August 1996 the National Emergency Management Principles and Practice Advisory Group agreed to expand the original AEM Series to cover a comprehensive range of emergency management principles andpractice publications. The new Series incorporates the 20 original AEMs mainly as PART IV of a five-part structure as follows: PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V — — — — — The Fundamentals Approaches to Emergency Management Emergency Management Practice Skills for Emergency Services Personnel The Management of Training

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