Engage the Community
Develop and maintain long-standing policies and procedures for engaging with government and community stakeholders.
Inside the new Firefighter Life Safety Initiative 11
Combines these original initiatives:
- Grant Support
- Response Policies
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Learn how the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives is an integral part of reducing firefighter fatalities and injuries.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Discover how a balanced approach of leadership can help prevent firefighter fatalities and injuries with practical and specific tips.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Gain a better understanding of the interpersonal skills needed as a company officer. Learn tips on how to effectively communicate priorities, understanding and responding to problems and handling difficult and awkward situations.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
View an unscripted roundtable discussion between five fire service leaders about creating change in the fire service and leading a culture of safety. Topics discussed include: making safety a priority, handling resistance, fostering an environment of trust and risk mitigation.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Review the benefits of automatic fire sprinkler and alarm systems to firefighter health and safety and evaluate a set of core principles to guide a firefighter’s interaction with these systems.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
This module discusses the unique characteristics of wildland fire responses, the known hazard categories and safety practices that mitigate these hazards, and how to practice effective risk management.
Credit Hours: 2 Hours
This program emphasizes the importance of comprehensive pre-incident plans for complex properties, detailing the selection criteria, information gathering, analysis, and dissemination to incident commanders during events.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Firefighters must understand how sprinkler systems work to pre-plan fire response and to use sprinklers effectively during a fire incident. This self-paced program demonstrates the advantages of automatic sprinkler systems, then describes how they work and what components they contain.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
This self-paced program teaches how to complete pre-incident plans for commercial and industrial structures with sprinkler systems, enhancing fire suppression efforts and fostering relationships with property stakeholders, crucial due to the relative infrequency of such callouts compared to residential properties.
Credit Hours: 2 Hours
This program features a case study of a nearly fatal fire at an auto repair shop in Greensboro, NC, highlighting the importance of advanced pre-planning for complex properties, with insights from the Greensboro Fire Department on lessons learned and subsequent improvements to their preplanning process.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Sprinklered buildings sometimes still burn for many reasons, including design deficiencies and impairment to the sprinkler system that occurs either prior to or during the fire. In this self-paced program, you will learn why sprinklered buildings burn and how these causes can be mitigated.
Credit Hours: 1 Hours
This program introduces fire service personnel to carbon monoxide: scientific properties, sources, detection, effects on the human body, exposures to firefighters, and exposure mitigation strategies. The module provides critical, concrete, accurate information and best practices you can use immediately to reduce your CO exposure and protect yourself and your colleagues from injury and death.
