Table 1.

Practical interventions that may mitigate the effects of acute traumatic events prior to developing PTSD

Strategy	Intervention	Possible outcome?
Increasing resilience	Increase fitness	Reduced relative work intensity for individuals
	Managing fatigue—appropriate work/rest cycles	Reduced fatigue and risk of overtraining
	Psychological screening	At risk, individuals may be removed prior to exposure or proactive, targeted interventions are put in place
	Injury management/rehabilitation	Proper injury management, particularly in the form of early intervention will reduce the duration of injury and possibly related immune changes
Working in the heat/smoke	Appropriate PPC selection for the task	Reduced thermal strain of workers
	Pre-cooling of workers	Reduced thermal strain during work events possibly due to lower peak T c
	Post-incident cooling	Reduce inflammation to resting state as soon as possible following work. Reduce T c rapidly to baseline levels
	Appropriate work/rest cycles	Minimising T c rise and subsequent inflammatory activity
Sleep deprivation	Cognitive behaviour therapy	Individuals demonstrating sleeping disorders may improve the quality and duration of sleep
	Sleep hygiene	Individuals will have better strategies for managing sleep in the field and during deployments
	Screening for sleep disorders	Individuals can be targeted for interventions
	Rostering for rest periods	Reduced fatigue of possibly at-risk individuals