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Safety, is Priceless- What's Your Role?
Safety, is Priceless- What's Your Role?
June 22-28, 2008
IAFC’s Volunteer & Combination Officers Section Safety Week podcast:
VCOS Radio: Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week
Safety Week partner NFPA will release a podcast each weekday during the observance to highlight an issue related to health and safety of fire service members. The following podcasts will be available at www.nfpa.org/FSTpodcasts:
Monday, June 23: Medical issues for firefighters
Tuesday, June 24: Apparatus Safety and changes to NFPA 1901
Wednesday, June 25: Wildland Firefighter Safety
Thursday, June 26: Fireside Chat with Alan Brunacini
Friday, June 27: Live Fire Training and the 2007 Edition of NFPA 1403
National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System will release a podcast on Sunday, June 22 for Safety Week:
Near-Miss Listen and Learn
Committed to Long-Term Results encourages long-term investments by chiefs and firefighters to enhance their health and safety. The ultimate goal is to institute a strong culture of health and safety within the fire/EMS service.
This year’s theme reflects the need for organizational action that supports and encourages a safety culture. Recommended activities and materials will incorporate three key areas where standard operating procedures, policies and initiatives—along with the training and enforcement that support them—can limit fire/EMS personnel’s risk of injury or death:
Fully implement NFPA 1500, especially sections addressing PPE:
Provide compliant PPE.
Train and enforce use of PPE, including respiratory protection.
Fully implement the Wellness-Fitness Initiative:
Provide annual medical and physical evaluations.
Provide equipment and time for exercise.
Provide nutrition information.
Initiate an emergency vehicle policy, to include:
Always buckle up.
Always stop at red lights and stop signs.
Always drive at speed limits and defensively.
Focus on Safety this week and start being a real mentor and leader.....
June 22-28, 2008
IAFC’s Volunteer & Combination Officers Section Safety Week podcast:
VCOS Radio: Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week
Safety Week partner NFPA will release a podcast each weekday during the observance to highlight an issue related to health and safety of fire service members. The following podcasts will be available at www.nfpa.org/FSTpodcasts:
Monday, June 23: Medical issues for firefighters
Tuesday, June 24: Apparatus Safety and changes to NFPA 1901
Wednesday, June 25: Wildland Firefighter Safety
Thursday, June 26: Fireside Chat with Alan Brunacini
Friday, June 27: Live Fire Training and the 2007 Edition of NFPA 1403
National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System will release a podcast on Sunday, June 22 for Safety Week:
Near-Miss Listen and Learn
Committed to Long-Term Results encourages long-term investments by chiefs and firefighters to enhance their health and safety. The ultimate goal is to institute a strong culture of health and safety within the fire/EMS service.
This year’s theme reflects the need for organizational action that supports and encourages a safety culture. Recommended activities and materials will incorporate three key areas where standard operating procedures, policies and initiatives—along with the training and enforcement that support them—can limit fire/EMS personnel’s risk of injury or death:
Fully implement NFPA 1500, especially sections addressing PPE:
Provide compliant PPE.
Train and enforce use of PPE, including respiratory protection.
Fully implement the Wellness-Fitness Initiative:
Provide annual medical and physical evaluations.
Provide equipment and time for exercise.
Provide nutrition information.
Initiate an emergency vehicle policy, to include:
Always buckle up.
Always stop at red lights and stop signs.
Always drive at speed limits and defensively.
Focus on Safety this week and start being a real mentor and leader.....
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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on
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What a watse of time!
We've got too much tradition and this is how we've always done it- we don't change for the sake of change.
Back in my days.....
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Sarcasm intended.
It's 2008 and we still kill too many, we still don't see the need to change our tactics, we still don't see the need to change our techniques and so on....
How many more safety iniatives do we need before people get the picture? This forum and others is loaded with people who just don't get it, and no amount of this stuff is going to get through to them....
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