The impact of witnessing the aftermath of a trauma is certainly stressful.Ask the police who were first at the scene of the 2003 Waterfall train disaster. These men received bravery awards for their rescue efforts but are not eligible to receive compensation for being so tramatized that they medically discharged from the police force.

It is just not fair that they have to fight for compensation because they are not direct witnesses of the actual train crash! I was a bank hold-up psychologist and learned that it was traumatic even for the girl who was having her lunch upstairs. She panicked thinking that it could have been she who had a gun pointed at her!