Posts Tagged: Safety Culture
Have you Looked at the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Lately; Doing Anything with them?
When was the last time you looked at the Initiatives?
Define and advocate the need for a cultural change within the fire service relating to safety; incorporating leadership, management, supervision, accountability and personal responsibility.
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Taking it to the Streets: Looking Forward Through the Rear View Mirror Parts I and II
Download and Listen in on an insightful look back at 2010 and forward into 2011 with a stellar line-up of fire service leaders.
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Taking it to the Streets: Looking Forward Through the Rear View Mirror
Join us on Wednesday night December 15th at 9:00 pm EST for an insightful look back at 2010 and forward into 2011 and beyond with a stellar line-up of fire service leaders.
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Taking it to the Streets: Looking Forward Through the Rear View Mirror
Taking it to the Streets with Christopher Naum
Taking it to the Streets: Looking Forward Through the Rear View Mirror
On Your Street, In Your City, Across the Country, Around the WorldTM
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Buildingsonfire reaches Milestone
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Another Average Week…for most of us
During this week, there were on average, over 10,173 structure fires in the United States. According to NFPA statistics the following occur on average in the U.S;
• A fire department responded to a fire every 20 seconds.
• One structure fire was …
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Looking at the Big Picture
A recent posting by Chief Ben Waller on the Candle-Moth Syndrome and the reference to Target Fixation brings to light some very important insights related to buildings, occupancies and the risk assessment process.The relationship of target fixation and f…
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Ninety-Nine days of Opportunity
The fire service is beginning to fully recognize the merits in adjusting, altering, and changing our strategic and tactical ways of doing business in the streets. The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all…
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Take a Good Look Around
Have you stopped for a minute today and taken a good look around? Whether you’re sitting in the front seat at the stop light of an intersection or as you’re peering out the side cab window coming back from an alarm or while running errands in your P…
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Honor and Remembrance
For many of us, the events of September 11th, 2001 will forever be etching into our minds and hearts. The magnitude and severity of the sacrifices made that day by the FDNY as well as the NYPD, EMS and PANY/NJ uphold the tradition, beliefs, values and id…
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Tactical Renaissance
My most recent post that stated and advocated that fire suppression tactics must be adjusted for the rapidly changing methods and materials impacting all forms of building construction, occupancies and structures. The need to redefine the art and science…
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It’s Occupancy Risk not Occupancy Type
The traditional attitudes and beliefs of equating aggressive firefighting operations in all occupancy types coupled with correlating, established and pragmatic operational strategies and tactics MUST not only be questioned, they need to be adjusted and m…
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The Consciences Observer or Activist
The Consciences Observer or Activist. So… the operative question today is this: What did you do on your last alarm response related to operational safety and enhanced situational awareness? Do you: participate in, contribute, join in, share, lead, pro…
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Fourteen Minutes to Mayday
Fourteen Minutes to MaydayOn April 04, 2008, a 37-year-old female career captain and a 29-year-old male part-time fire fighter were fatally injured when a section of floor collapsed and trapped them in the basement during a fire at a residential structur…
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History Repeating Events: Waldbaum’s Fire FDNY August 2, 1978- SIX LODD
31th Anniversary of the Waldbaum’s FireThe Waldbaum’s fire, Brooklyn, New York occurred on August 2, 1978. Six firefighters died when the roof of a burning Brooklyn supermarket collapsed, plunging 12 firefighters into the flames. The fire began in a …
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Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) Tactics
Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV) TacticsImproving firefighter safety is an ongoing effort for the fire service. A series of fire experiments were conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Building and Fire Research La…
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The NEW Lexicon and Challenges
Engineered Structural Assemblies & Systems (ESS)· THE Predominate Fire Service Challenge....The NEW Lexicon to add to your operational safety vocabulary and incident action plans...· Do you know what they represent and how these components, assemblies …
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week Postings from FFN
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week postings from Firefighter NationFire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week; T minus One; “The Opposing Spectrum of Fire Service Safety Culture”http://www.firefighternation.com/forum/topics/fireems-safety-healt…
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Seven; “The Courage to be Safe”
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Seven; “The Courage to be Safe” Protect Yourself: Your Safety, Health and Survival Are Your ResponsibilityToday is June 20th, the seventh day in the Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival We…
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Six: “Situations, Size-Up, Actions and Entertainment”
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Six: “Situations, Size-Up, Actions and Entertainment”Protect Yourself: Your Safety, Health and Survival Are Your ResponsibilityI had the opportunity this past April to present a large body of original re…
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Five: “From Waldbaum’s to Hackensack- Worcester to Charleston; Legacies for Operational Safety”
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Five: “From Waldbaum’s to Hackensack- Worcester to Charleston; Legacies for Operational Safety”Protect Yourself: Your Safety, Health and Survival Are Your ResponsibilityToday is June 18th, the fifth da…
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Three: “Dynamic Management of Risk during Combat Fire Engagement”
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Three: “Dynamic Management of Risk during Combat Fire Engagement”Protect Yourself: Your Safety, Health and Survival Are Your ResponsibilityOf the four (4) Key Focus areas in this year’s Fire/EMS Safet…
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Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Four: “History Repeating Events”
Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week: Day Four: "History Repeating Events"Protect Yourself: Your Safety, Health and Survival Are Your ResponsibilityToday is June 17th, the fourth day in the Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week. To many of you,…
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Firefighting and the Built Environment
If you don't fully understand how a building truly performs or reacts under fire conditions and the variables that can influence its stability and degradation, movement of fire and products of combustion and the resource requirements for fire suppression…
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Building Construction, Command Risk Management and Firefighter Safety
Building Construction, Command Risk Management and Firefighter Safety; three functional domains common to the fire service, each having a profound influence and interdependent relationship to fire operations, safety and incident management. When we talk …
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