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Motivating workers to perform safely

One of the struggles you have no doubt encountered is how to motivate members of the department to do their job safely. If you are in a career environment, this may come easy, as you probably have a progressive discipline process for those who don't comply. However, volunteers may not have such a policy and where they do, find it very difficult to enforce.

Several of the prior lessons have advanced the idea of promotion of safety, reinforcing safety and rewarding safety. In each case...

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Burton Clark

Burton Clark
The Tale of Two Proactive Fire Chiefs
Starting in 1976, every D.C. firefighter was trained on residential smoke detectors and that training continues now.

Nathan Trauernicht

Nathan Trauernicht
Community Safety Programs
There are countless programs available to educators to make the important connection between the classroom concept and the real-world practicality of keeping our children safe.

Frank Brannigan

Frank Brannigan
Brannigan: Is Your Inspector Ready?
As usual after a tragedy, our official experts in (lock the doors after the horse is stolen) have ordered the inspectors to do their best.
 

Recent Podcasts

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 12:57

In this edition of The Leader's Toolbox host Richard B. Gasaway interviews Mary Marchone, Community Risk Reduction Program Specialist at the National Fire Academy.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 11:58

This month on Fire Marshal's Corner, co-hosts Ed Comeau and Mike Love look at the international fire scene.

With the recent tragedy in Perm, Russia, that killed 124 people in a nightclub fire, they talk with Mark Ghilarducci, vice president for James Lee Witt Associates for some insight into the Russian fire service. Mark recently did a trip to Russia and met with a number of fire service professionals and toured several of their cities.

 

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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...

 

Upcoming TrainingLive Webcasts

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Jeffrey Pindelski

Monday, August 31, 2009 - 03:00

Rapid intervention and firefighter survival skills are often considered advanced, but do you have a firm grasp on the basic skills of firefighter removal? This webcast, based on case studies and proven statistics, will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied to basic, everyday fireground survival.

 

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