Tuesday, December 2, 2008
No Excuses
By Gary P. Morris
Over the past several years, NFPA firefighter fatality reports have identified that 10%-12% of annual deaths occurred during training. This is a situation...
Trickle-Down Theory
By Dick Knopf
Risk management is an elusive term, one that invokes thoughts of safety surveys, intrusive inspections, arbitrary rules and penalties for violations....
GIFT HORSES
By Dominic Colletti
To improve on your troop's core competency in performing You need to inspect and repair donated buildings before conducting live burns....
Safety in Numbers
Janet Wilmoth jwilmoth@primediabusiness.com
For those readers who have said that losing 100 firefighters a year is a small ratio compared to the more than 1 million firefighters in the United States,...
IAFF to Develop CBRN-Ready Turnouts
The federal government has awarded the International Association of Fire Fighters a contract to develop new structural firefighting personal protective...
NIST: Firefighter Injuries Cost Billions Per Year
Pat West, Senior Editor
USFA, NVFC To Study Volunteer Occupational Health & Safety
IAFF Receives DHS Contract to Develop CBRN-Ready Turnout Gear
A Staff Report
Wellness Promises All Talk, No Action
[ John Linstrom ]
We've called it wellness. We've given it an assigned position on our responses and it's always our first operational priority. Some departments even elevated...
Empower the People
By William Goldfeder
It begins and should be treated in the front seat, and it can end with the chiefs in the front office. What am I talking about? Disregard for safety rules...
Orlando Settles With Firefighters For Witholding Medical Information
International Association of Fire Fighters
5 Steps to Improve Emergency Vehicle Safety
Chris Cavette, Senior Editor, In Service Online
Deferred Apparatus Maintenance Cited in Fatal Wreck
Fit to Breathe
By Janet Wilmoth
Shortly before Sept. 11, 2001, a large metropolitan city purchased $7 million in new breathing apparatus for its fire department. Within weeks, they found...
Courses of Action
By R. David Paulison
Every year, approximately 25% of firefighter fatalities are due to vehicle crashes occurring when the firefighter is either responding to or returning...
Safe Operation of Emergency Vehicles
By Chris Cavette
In the last 10 years, more than 225 firefighters died in vehicle accidents while on duty. The really tragic thing is that many of these accidents can...
Cab Protection
By Chris Cavette
To give your personnel an extra margin of safety, consider specifying custom apparatus with special cab construction or auxiliary occupant protection...
Healthy Standards
By Darrell Eastin
One of the life-safety initiatives identified by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation is the development and implementation of national medical...
A Matter of Physics
A. K. Rosenhan
The laws of physics are unvarying, especially the law of gravity. If the physics facts conspire to cause a problem, it will indeed happen. The use of...
Metal on Metal
By Robert R. Rielage
An evaluation of metal roof-ladder hooks revealed their inability to remain stable on metal roofs....
NIOSH Offers Flood-Rescue Tips
The National Institute for Safety and Health Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has issued a report (No. F2001-02) focusing on...
Aggressive Stance
By Brett Bowman, Tim Keen & Brian Cook
A 34-year-old male recruit suffers severe back strain and is placed on light duty. He is removed from the recruit school and is placed into the next school...
USFA:107 On-Duty Deaths in 2004
Department of Homeland Security
Unacceptable Behavior
By I. David Daniels
The recent NBA skirmish involving both players and fans shocked the sporting world as well as the rest of the nation. Opinions vary on who was at fault...
Near-Miss Task Force Holds First Meeting
The first of three meetings of the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting Task Force took place in December. The task force, chaired by Dennis Smith,...
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