Leading the Way
Establish consistent leadership practices that empower all members to model survival-focused behaviors and promote a culture of growth and resilience.
Related Pillar and Perspective:
- Survival Culture and Leadership
- Practices and Standards
Inside the New Firefighter Life Safety Initiative 2
Combines these original initiatives:
- Response Policies
- Empowerment
- Cultural Change
Action-Steps for Firefighters & Fire Officers
For Firefighters
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- Action Item #3
For Company Officers
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- Action Item #2
- Action Item #3
For Chief Officers
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- Action Item #2
- Action Item #3
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
Understand the fundamentals of firefighter health and safety including personal commitment to health and safety, peer to leader transition, protocols enforcement, crew resource management and related-NFFF
programs.
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
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
After Action Review (AAR) offers the fire service the opportunity to formalize the tradition of informal post-incident conversations into a simple, but systematic, guided process of analyzing, refining, and improving incident response. This fire service training module explains the origins of After Action Review, its application to the fire service, how to implement it, and the important role it plays in culture change.
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: 1 Hour
Fire officers and firefighters must understand how to interact with automatic sprinkler systems to save lives and protect property, and this self-paced program outlines the critical initial actions required upon arrival at a property with an activated sprinkler system to ensure effective incident management and system restoration.
Credit Hours: 1 Hour
This module explores factors influencing training safety and recommended practices to reduce firefighter deaths and injuries, covering department culture, training design and administration, facilities, instructor requirements, safety officer roles, student needs, and safety practices.
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.
