Tommy Baekgaard

Public Firefighter from early 1986 to late 2014 included:

– Educated ant trained as fire officer and instructor from State Fire service.
– Special trained as:
– Professional rescue diver.
– High rescue.
– Chemical diver.
– Road and train accidents.
– Certified in “Reconstruction and Integration of Traumatic Stress”.

Worked with psychological health for firefighters since 2004 and with occupational cancers since 2010.

Editor of firefighter magazine from 2005 to 2017.

Union leader from 2010 to 2020. Member of board since 2006.

Board member for European Firefighter Unions Alliance EFFUA from 2008 to 2020.

Founder and president of “Danish Firefighter ́s Cancer Organization” BFC since 2013.

Author of numerus articles about occupational health and safety for fire fighters.

Speaker to fire fighter organizations, Universities and Parliaments around the world about occupational health and safety for fire fighters.

Member of deferent expert and working groups working for a fire safe Europe. Member of honor upon “The Nordic

Firefighters” NBS 2015.

Winner of “The Danish Community Awards 2015”

Part of IAFF-Global Alliance.

Chairman of CTIF health commission from 2020.