'Stand Down' Rolls Across the Country - Firehouse.com News
Firefighters across the Nation and Canada have been participating in the Second "Stand Down" which is designed to trim all the fat out of a firefighters normal workday down to the bare bones necessity of running emergency calls and replace it with a focus on Safety. The IAFC and IAFF have partnered again this year in the "Stand Down" as a way of waking firefighters up to the common and most often accidents that have claimed their lives in the past. Read the article below, there is a nice compilation of events from many departments across North America.
'Stand Down' Rolls Across the Country - Firehouse.com News:
"ATTITUDE and BEHAVIOR are the driving forces behind policies, regulations, and safety mandates," said Virginia's Richmond Fire Department Fire Chief Robert Creecy as he addressed his personnel. "Without the right attitude and true accountability for consistent safe behavior, the rest is just words on paper."
Richmond Fire and Emergency Medical Services are observing a six-week Stand Down. "Some people are sick, some are out on leave, you can't reach everyone in one day. Everyone in my department will be taught. This is not something you accomplish overnight," Creecy explained.
Creecy's teaching methods must be effective. There was a 50 percent drop in Richmond Fire Department injuries and illnesses in 2005 over 2004, and motor-vehicle collisions were reduced by about one-third. (Read More)
7 comments:
Stand down didn't work here. #10 trained for 3 hours and didn't say anything about safety.
Well maybe some of our Company Officers or maybe even our Department is missing the scope of this event. Hopefully next year we will not have any lack of participation.
What kind of training did you do? Was it outside and hands on training? Or were you just in the station talking about the subject?
As far as Roanoke City goes, it is an assortment of ideas mostly decided at the Company level. It all depends. Maybe we can get some feedback as to what was done and gone over.
If you are asking me directly, I am on vacation for about a month so actually I missed it.
The training we did was blackboard friction loss & general fire problems for awhile then went over the RIT connections & the different ways to secure a down fireman to extricate them from a building. And it was more like 2 1/2 hours. The friction loss would be a stretch for safety, unless you consider not having water an unsafe situation, but the RIT I would say is a safety topic. 2 1/2 hours is alot for the standdown day, but it isn't too much to ask. It could have been worse. TC
National standdown day was about vehicle safety, but our department (city) never notified anyone with any information
Training saves lives,I think some in roanoke have forgot what the stand down is for,Doing black board training is ok,Its not a big deal It sounds like one of the arff guys missed his nap?
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