Identifying missing training gaps in employees is a critical step in ensuring that your workforce is equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their jobs effectively. Here’s some thoughts on establishing a step-by-step guide on how to identify these gaps: Understand Your Department Goals: Start by aligning your training efforts with your organization’s …
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Thorough communication is essential in various aspects of life, specifically on the fire ground. Effective communication involves conveying your message clearly, ensuring it is understood, and actively listening to the responses and feedback from others. Here are some key principles for practicing thorough communication: Clarity: Use clear and concise language to express your thoughts, ideas, …
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Title: Mastering Go/No-Go Decisions: A Guide to Informed Choices Introduction In our fast-paced world, making decisions is an everyday occurrence. Whether it’s deciding what to have for lunch or determining fire suppression tactics, our lives are filled with choices. Among these choices, there exists a particular type of decision-making process known as “Go/No-Go decisions,” which …
Most firefighters have heard of networking and yet most firefighters don’t know how important it can be to their careers. There is an old adage that describes abilities in people. The adage goes, if your only skill is to be a hammer, then every problem is a nail. Firefighters are comfortable with workflow, the ability …
It’s been said in many fire education classes that the first few minutes of the fire determines the outcome or the severity of the incident. We have also told our new recruits that the first few minutes at work determines how their day will proceed. The importance of getting dressed, getting your gear on the …
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At the end of last week, the City of Tulsa had initiated a hiring freeze. Tulsa has lost $1.8 million in revenues over the last two months. Seattle where the pandemic hit hard is projecting more than $110 million in lost revenue, and that isn’t counting the losses from stay at home orders. Prior to …
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Social distancing has put a real challenge in front of battalion fire commanders as well as the rest of society. Unlike many private sector businesses, the fire service has more of a tradition of interacting with commanders on a regular basis. The distancing has challenged this tradition. With this change comes a need to change …
In November of 2019, two central Indiana fire departments initiated mandatory training for their personnel regarding Dementia. EMS has been discussing the large numbers of baby boomers who are aging and in need of more medical care for the last few years. Those increased calls for assistance have materialized to impact public safety and are …
Go shopping or browsing for IT devices and you will find a great deal of them tout the ability of their product to allow the user to multi-task. Their suggestion is that multi-tasking is a normal function of the human being and their product will help you do it better. This buzz-word has been around …
Fireground commanders never know when a mayday will occur at an emergency scene. The statistics tell us that it will be at the beginning of an incident, it will involve ride-out or overtime officers, combined with younger inexperienced firefighters or entire crews that don’t work together all that much. The focus quickly becomes the rescue …
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