![]() ![]() Ms Hepher, who is also the president of the ambulance employees' Tasmanian sub branch of the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU), said attending an incident with a child of similar age to one's own, or an elderly person of similar age to a relative, was the kind of thing that could fill the bucket. Ms Hepher told those in attendance at an inquiry looking into the high rates of "mental health conditions experienced by first responders, emergency service workers and volunteers" of how for most in the business of attending road crashes, domestic violence call-outs and other serious incidents, the bucket was near to overflowing most of the time. ![]() The "bucket", as ambulance paramedic Lauren Hepher explained, was the shorthand by which she and her colleagues referred to the finite capacity of their coping mechanisms. Lauren Hepher, with Tim Jacobson, said first responders use a bucket as a metaphor. ![]()
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