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Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program:
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Everyone Goes Home® Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program is pleased to once again participate as a partner in the IAFC/IAFF 2008 Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week, scheduled for June 22-28, 2008.
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The theme for this year is Committed to Long Term Results, which encourages long term investments by both 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.
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.
- 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.
- Fully implement the Wellness-Fitness Initiative:
- Provide annual medical and physical evaluations.
- Provide equipment and time for exercise.
- Provide nutrition information.
- Fully implement NFPA 1500, especially sections addressing
PPE:
- Provide compliant PPE.
- Train and enforce use of PPE, including respiratory protection
Keep watching www.iafc.org/safetyweek for more information on this year's program and planning resources developed by the IAFC Safety Health and Survival Section.
Firefighters must have the courage to face a multitude of risks in order to save lives and protect their communities. But a different type of courage is required to stay safe in potentially dangerous situations, avoiding needless risks and tragic consequences. That different type of courage is the subject of "The Courage to Stay Safe - So Everyone Goes Home®" program. This provocative and moving presentation is designed to change the culture of accepting the loss of our firefighters as a normal occurrence.
"The Courage to Stay Safe" was conceived and developed by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program Team, with assistance from Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder of the Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department and FDNY Battalion Chief John Salka in response to a request by Pennsylvania Fire Commissioner Ed Mann to develop a program aimed at Line-of-Duty Death Prevention.
At the heart of "The Courage to Stay Safe" are the gripping, untold stories of LODD survivors, revealing how family members must live with the consequences of a firefighter death. The program graphically underscores the need for firefighters and officers to change fundamental attitudes and behaviors in order to prevent line of duty deaths, and promotes the courage to do the right thing so that "Everyone Goes Home®" at the end of the day.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Life Safety Initiatives Program is pleased to announce that Captain Tim Zehnder, & Fire Rescue Program Mgr., Truman Fire & Rescue & South Central College has been selected as a Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Program State Advocate for Minnesota along with G Crawford Weistling, President of Investigative & Loss Control Services, Prior Lake Prior Lake (MN), Fire Chief Emeritus West End (PA) Fire & Rescue.The primary mission of this program is to work in conjunction with all the fire service organizations to make every fire department in United States aware of the “blueprint” developed in Tampa, and to provide resources to enable departments to implement them.
In this position these gentlemen will be working to ensure fire departments in Minnesota are aware of the initiatives and assist them in implementation strategies. The State Advocates are the ears and eyes for the national program supporting the mission of eliminating preventable line of duty injuries and deaths through the sharing and implementation of best practices and training programs.
The Life Safety Initiatives Team is pleased to welcome G. Crawford Weistling and Timothy J. Zehnder to the program.
For more information on the Everyone Goes Home Program please visit www.everyonegoeshome.com
or call 1.877.344.0361.
Region V
(IL, IN, MI, MN,
OH, WI)
Minnesota
G. Crawford Weistling
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President, Investigative & Loss Control Services, Prior Lake (MN), Fire Chief Emeritus West End (PA) Fire & Rescue
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E-mail: ilc@fishnet.com
Timothy J. Zehnder
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Asst. Chief & Fire Rescue Program Mgr., Truman Fire & Rescue & South Central College
E-mail: tim.zehnder@southcentral.edu
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