About Us

The American Board of First Responder Behavioral Healthcare (FRBH) is an independent nonprofit standards-development organization focused on occupational psychological hazard protection in public safety.
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FRBH exists to help public safety organizations apply established occupational safety principles to the predictable psychological exposures inherent in the work. The FRBH National Standard for Occupational Psychological Hazard Protection establishes a nationally consistent framework for organizational readiness before exposure occurs. It applies established occupational safety principles to a category of foreseeable occupational exposure that has lacked a consistent organizational standard.
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FRBH also provides the guidance, tools, and technical assistance organizations need to put the Standard into practice. The National Standard and all implementation support are provided at no cost.
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‍Predictable exposure should be met with predictable organizational protection.
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‍VIEW FRBH OVERVIEW (PDF)
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‍Mission
Protecting first responders by serving public safety organizations.

‍Vision
A future in which protection from predictable occupational psychological hazards is recognized as a fundamental responsibility of occupational safety across public safety professions.
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Foundational Principle
Occupational Psychological Hazard Protection (OPHP) rests on a principle established in occupational safety: predictable workplace hazards warrant systematic organizational protection. OPHP applies that principle to predictable occupational psychological hazards through governance, organizational accountability, exposure-informed activation, and continual improvement — strengthening the organizational systems responsible for workforce protection rather than substituting for them.
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Institutional Functions‍
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‍The FRBH National Standard
‍Establishes nationally consistent organizational expectations for Occupational Psychological Hazard Protection across trauma-exposed public safety professions.
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The National Technical Assistance Center
‍Supports voluntary implementation through general implementation guidance, AI-assisted support, educational resources, implementation tools, organizational learning, and general technical assistance.
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Multidisciplinary Development
The National Standard was developed by bringing together subject-matter expertise from across the professions it covers, rather than from any single discipline or individual. The National Advisory Council contributes expertise spanning occupational safety, industrial and systems engineering, emergency medical services, public health, public safety communications, corrections, the fire service, and law enforcement.

The Board of Directors holds adoption authority. No individual director is named within the National Standard. The institution, rather than any person, is accountable for it.
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‍VIEW LEADERSHIP →
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Public-Interest Commitment
FRBH provides implementation support as a public good rather than through a fee-for-service model. The National Standard is published without charge and may be implemented at no cost. Implementation support is provided free, on the same terms to every organization, and without regard to whether an organization has adopted the Standard. Conformity depends on no fee and on the purchase of no service, from FRBH or from any other party.
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Development Status
Version 3.0 of the National Standard is published as a Provisional Field-Test Edition. It is available for voluntary implementation and field learning while FRBH continues the standards-development process toward a future Consensus Edition. Comments are welcome at info@frbh.org.
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Scope Notice
FRBH establishes and maintains the FRBH National Standard for Occupational Psychological Hazard Protection and supports voluntary implementation through the National Technical Assistance Center. FRBH does not perform conformity assessment, certification, or accreditation of any organization and does not operate such a program. FRBH does not provide clinical care, prescribe treatment, regulate behavioral healthcare services, provide organization-specific implementation or readiness consulting, accredit healthcare providers, or evaluate individual workforce mental health conditions.

Contact
‍American Board of First Responder Behavioral Healthcare
1314 E. Las Olas Blvd, Suite 2046
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
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‍305-791-FRBH (3724) — institutional inquiries
info@frbh.org — institutional inquiries and comments on the National Standard
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Implementation questions are directed to the National Technical Assistance Center.
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