Title: Fire Officer's Guide to Occupational Safety & Health Author: Ronald Kanterman ISBN: 1593704194 / 9781593704193 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 297 Publisher: Fire Engineering Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
There has to be accountability at every level of the organization from the chief to the rookie. Company officers have to step up and remind those under their command of safe operations and related procedures. Accountability at all levels is key to the success of any program, and it’s the key to survival when it comes to firefighter safety.
Who needs this book?
Fire chiefs, fire officers, incident safety officers, and health and safety officers
Why?
To gain the tools they need to operate the department within some acceptable parameters of safety and occupational health
What?
Use this as a guide to safe operations and a healthy work force. Here are the concepts and resources you can find:
Risk management
Personnel protection (protecting the protectors)
Scene safety
The 16 Life Safety Initiatives and The Courage to be Safe/Everyone Goes Home program
Training
Occupational safety and health
Fitness
Codes and standards that dictate and/or assist within the genre of health and safety
Ask yourself these questions:
Have you made firefighter safety and health a primary value of your organization?
Is there a culture of safety in your fire department?
Do the chief and line officers "walk the walk" and "talk the talk"?
Preface : How to Use this Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
About the Author
Chapter 1 : Risk Management Chapter 2 : Protecting the Protectors Chapter 3 : On the Emergency Scene Chapter 4 : Vehicle, Highway, and Traffic Operations Chapter 5 : Saving Our Own : Rapid Intervention Chapter 6 : Fire Prevention, Public Education, and Firefighter Safety Chapter 7 : Risk of Cancer is Higher Chapter 8 : Safety Leadership Chapter 9 : Why You Should Follow the NFPA Standards Chapter 10 : A Hazardous Occupation Chapter 11 : OSHA, NIOSH, and Other Organizations
Appendix A : SOPs and SOGs
Appendix B : Sample Infection (Exposure) Control Program
References
Index