Leading in Times of Challenge Session 2: Team Building and Training
The fire service is facing many challenges from changes in finances, generational turnover operational needs, organizational management, personnel expectations, society, and technology. Sharing experiences, successes, and failures can help leaders learn from each other, expand their thinking, and bring new ideas and strategies to their departments. Leading in Times of Challenge is a conversation between fire service leaders about the challenges departments face today, understanding the factors at play, and addressing the challenges with creative solutions. Session 2 covers team building and training.
Leading in Times of Challenge Session 1: Relationships and Culture
The fire service is facing many challenges from changes in finances, generational turnover operational needs, organizational management, personnel expectations, society, and technology. Sharing experiences, successes, and failures can help leaders learn from each other, expand their thinking, and bring new ideas and strategies to their departments. Leading in Times of Challenge is a conversation between fire service leaders about the challenges departments face today, understanding the factors at play, and addressing the challenges with creative solutions. Session 1 covers communication, interpersonal relationships, a culture of health and safety, and leadership development.
Leading in Times of Challenge Session 1: Relationships and Culture
Leading in Times of Challenge is a conversation between fire service leaders about the challenges departments face today, understanding the factors at play, and addressing the challenges with creative solutions. Session 1 covers communication, interpersonal relationships, a culture of health and safety, and leadership development.
Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the Fire and Rescue Services
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.
Fire and Rescue Training Safety
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.
After-Action Review
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.
Health & Safety at Wildland Fires
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.
Creating Change in the Fire Service
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.
Company Officer’s Health & Safety Responsibilities
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.
Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge
Discover how a balanced approach of leadership can help prevent firefighter fatalities and injuries with practical and specific tips.
Courage to Be Safe®
Learn how the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives is an integral part of reducing firefighter fatalities and injuries.
