Sunday, September 7, 2008
Free Highway Safety Video Available
The Emergency Responder Safety Institute has announced the availability of its awareness video, The Ten Cones of Highway Safety. The institute is an informal...
4.9GHz Emissions Mask Under Fire
BY DONNY JACKSON
Public-safety and vendor officials have continued their debate concerning the appropriate emissions mask for equipment operating in the newly allocated...
IAFC to Develop Near-Miss Reporting System
Blow Up
By Mark Brady
Every year on Valor Day, firefighters and paramedics from the Prince George's County (Md.) Fire/EMS Department receive recognition for their heroic acts...
NIOSH Reports on Collapse, Traffic Deaths
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program recently issued reports on a Missouri...
Some Friendly Advice
By Portia Rawles, Psy.D.
Occupational stress is strongly associated with mental and physical health. We know how many firefighters are lost in the line of duty, yet we do not...
NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigations: Vehicle and Lounge Fire Deaths
Law May Hold Departments & ICs Liable for Firefighter Deaths
Larry Bennett, Esquire
Study Calls for New Safety Approach
The Rand Corp., a non-profit research institution, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health issued a report in June calling for better...
NIOSH Reports on Rollover, Collapse Deaths
The NIOSH Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program recently issued reports on a New Mexico assistant chief's death in a tanker rollover...
Not for the Weak
The decision to publish the photo on pages 24-25 of the current issue of FIRE CHIEF wasn't an easy one. But we hope its underlying warning is received....
Rescue-Related Fatalities, 1994 Today
Rescue is a dangerous business. For the types of incidents resulting in firefighter fatalities, motor vehicle crashes account for more than 40%, and water...
Free Slides Offered as Safety Reminders
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the U.S. Fire Administration are distributing six PowerPoint slides and encouraging departments nationwide...
Get Involved in the Revolution
R. David Paulison, U.S. Fire Administrator
Read the Directions
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
Recently the Fire and Emergency Manufacturers & Services Association introduced a new warning code that FEMSA members can include on a small card with their products....
The Medium and the Message
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
The message is basic firefighter safety to prevent fatalities and the National Fallen Firefighters' Foundation has the medium: six slides that you can use to keep safety at the forefront in firefighters' minds. ...
NFFF Promotes 16 Strategies
Define and advocate the need for a cultural change within the fire service realting to safety, incorporating leadership, management, supervision, accountability...
Summit Nets Methods to Lower LODDs
The fire service needs a cultural change to dramatically reduce firefighter line-of-duty deaths. The prevailing attitude that accepts losing an average...
Highway Hypnosis May Affect Scene Lights
Douglas Page
Do emergency warning lights cause accidents that injure firefighters? The jury's still out, but the Society of Automotive Engineers has been asked by...
Preventing LODDs, Step Two
Janet Wilmoth, Editor
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the U.S. Fire Administration took the next step in a national plan to dramatically reduce firefighter fatalities this week. ...
National Life Safety Summit Initial Report Released
A Staff Report
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the United States Fire Administration on Thursday announced the release of the initial report from the National Life Safety Summit the NFFF hosted in March, detailing a strategy to dramatically reduce firefighter line-of-duty deaths....
DHS Approves CBRN Ensembles, Detectors
In late February, the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Division approved standards for first responder PPE and radiological and...
The New Normal
By Mike McKenna
The world order is changing, and many of those changes will have a direct impact on the fire service's role as primary first responder. In that role,...
Training Accounts for 10% of Fatalities
An analysis of statistics from the U.S. Firefighter Fatality Database shows that while the number of firefighter fatalities have remained fairly consistent...
New Survivor Benefits Mean Changes to SOPs
[ Lawrence Bennett ]
Last December, President George W. Bush signed into law the Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefit Act of 2003, which extends the federal death benefits under...
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