I contemplate one of the most important training items in the fire service area that we need to focus on is authentic fire ground exercises. Fire ground training are drills that reflect real-time circumstances on the emergency scene. Our training needs to focus towards our daily tasks, teamwork and most of all teamwork on the emergency scene. Furthermore, in the past quite a few of my training drills came from the International Fire Service Training Association manual or similar resources. While I do believe these sequenced, systematic drills remain, tremendously valuable in foundation training to establish baseline competency. Likewise, consider that real life situations do not always follow training manuals. The purpose of the drills …show more content…
In the Fire service, we have available plenty of basic drills we can train on daily to better ourselves. It seems everyone is trying specialized training, which needed, and forgets to master few of our more tedious items and commonplace Page 8b functions. A number of of these would incorporate pump operations, hose line advancement, fire ground operations. Consequently, the drills we do should be more than by the numbers drills, they should be operations that imitate what we will do at the emergency scene. They should be our “bread and butter” drills that we must get correct, every time. These drills must emulate what we do on the fire ground as a department. The goal should be training that becomes a common reaction and not a focus on what we remember as a one, two, three process. Therefore, an example of a drill that I have used at my department for training is a firefighter calling a Mayday. This is a very commanding evolution in the fire service today, from the low occurrences and the extremely high risk associated with a mayday. The first part of the drill was a review of our mayday policy and the classroom simulation of practicing the mayday. The review would contain recognizing your need of calling a mayday, and then actually calling the mayday. I had fourteen of our personnel call a mayday while in a controlled
Having adequate resources, including personnel, equipment, and water is essential to a successful operation. Improper implementation of the ICS system, as well as not having accountability for the firefighters involved in a fire as large as the Pawtucket event, are serious safety issues that could have proved disastrous for the firefighters in this incident. Safety is the first rule in firefighting with the end goal that everyone goes
The hospital policy for fire drills requires one drill per shift per quarter. The audit shows that there are some compliancy concerns regarding the fire drills. During third shift, for the first and third quarters, no fire drill occurred. Also, there was no fire drill on the second shift during the fourth quarter. Obviously, there should be further study to determine the cause for the compliancy issue vs. staffing deficiencies during third shift. Additionally, each department will have a safety monitor assigned to ensure the fire drills occur as per hospital policy. The safety monitor will complete a form documenting the staff involved in the fire drill, date, and time the drill took place and will keep a copy in the safety manual to be inspected monthly.
Applying the correct abstractions and generalizations to problems is essential to my position within my department. As a station captain in the Waco Fire Department, on the department's safety committee, and equipment committee; I assist in solving many problems that arise in the department. Serving on the equipment committee, we are expected to find solutions for the various needs of the department. As a member of the safety committee, we must look at ways to improve safe operations for department personnel and civilians.
Emergency Procedures are located in the Policies and Procedures section. They are divided into 4 sections: Fire Safety Guidelines, Emergency Drills, Response to a Violent Incident (can be a student disruption), and a crisis policy. The fire safety guidelines were more about the type of equipment that could be used in the classroom, while emergency drills were broken into fire drills and tornado drills.
Non-compliance regarding the fire drill data occurs on the 2nd and 3rd shifts; this is usually when there is no leadership present on the hospital campus. This would lead one to believe that the staff is only compliant with the drills when leadership is physically on the hospital campus to play “watchdog.” A solution to help this non-compliance behavior is to have leadership present during all hours and complete rounding to ensure staff is compliant with the drills. This is important because the drills have an effect on life safety.
Validity claims are deriving from the potentially unbalanced and discriminative approaches to determining ones capabilities through and within the City of Lakewood’s firefighter program. Claims of standardized equipment restricting the physical capabilities of one’s movement is effecting ones results, however, fire retardant boots and gloves are required for the protection of firefighters during the course of duty and should not be compromised. The main purpose is to ensure the individuals are mentally prepared, conditionally effective, and supplied with the abilities to endure prolonged periods of exposure to highly intensified situations. Although such requirements are demanding, strenuous and potentially hurtful, it is extremely vital that when delivering products of public
Fire Drills- This is vital to ensure staff has practiced emergency procedures. While auditing the fire drill history it was noted there were gaps in completing the required quarterly drill for each shift. The third shift lacked a drill in the first quarter and the third quarter. The fourth quarter was lacking a drill during the second shift. The area sited was EOC.
In our school we have our emergency procedures displayed at specific points around the setting so that no matter where you are there is a copy within easy view such as the toilets or the main office waiting area. These procedures state what to do in the event of a fire or evacuation. We carry out regular fire drills so that the children know what to expect and also to help us identify any issues with our procedure. The dates and time taken to carry out fire drills are recorded. We had our practice fire drill recently in our school and I was playing with some children in the nursery garden and we did not hear the fire drill outside, so when we took the children to the fire assembly point,
A key leader needs to attend a train-the trainer event. These events have proven to be an effective method for getting effective training done at the local level (Thomas & Carruth, 2015). This person should be in a full-time leadership position in safety services to ensure availability to receive and pass along the training in a timely fashion.
In the Fire service following instructions is of utmost importance. Not only is your life at risk if you fail to follow instructions, but you are also putting your fellow firefighters lives at risk. However, not all instructions given are life threatening but, are there to keep order and uniformity. The fire service is a paramilitary career meaning that it has a very strict standard on how things are done. When you are given a specific instructions, it is important to truly understand what your task is. This includes everything from your job at a structure fire to knowing what your morning chore will be. This is in order to properly due your job and, to ensure that no repeats of that same task are done. Going back to the point of you fellow
The East Haven fire department deals with fire rescue operations in case of tragedy. The department is exposed to solving stressful situations negative emotions from various clients. To be able to handle the situations at hand, the employees ought to balance their emotions to be able to work effectively. One of the strategies the employees use is calmness. The dispatcher personnel have to stay calm to get all the necessary information needed to be able to respond to the situation effectively. She achieves through writing down a script. The script helps her to give clear information such as the address of the incident the resources needed. Writing down the details helps her from losing track and the sense of purpose. It helps her stay calm and focused on her
The first step is your perception of the situation that you are encountering at the moment of the emergence you have pulling up to. The firefighter needs to gather the information of how bad the patients are, how many ambulances will we need, and where to place the apparatus on the scene, and now where will we be taking all the patience’s. This has to be handled in minutes of pulling up to the emergency. Our
This area is so vital to our success in any form of training that it can often
Training and development activities include: Inductions, Health & Safety training/law, organisation and delivery of training courses, structuring appraisals & Personal Development framework, holding, recording and updating training information and managing training budgets.
Some of the benefits of simulated training is that it provides individuals with the knowledge to know how to properly handle stress or dangerous situations. Training also provides the children and staff with a blueprint to follow when situations like this one arise. I feel like with multiple practices the parties will mistakes but by doing these frequently they become more accustom to how a situation should be handled. Though I must say training is a great thing to have because it prepares you for what to do but one caution that should be avoided but is uncontrollable is for some people to panic or just become downright fearful of the situation so they freeze and forget everything that was taught due to intense fear. In order to overcome situations