Fire Service Management
Running a fire and EMS organization: management science, legal issues, risk and customer service.
Keeping Firefighters Safe When Working in “Big Box” Occupancies
By: Robert Avsec The vast majority of fires that Fire & EMS department personnel will experience during their fire service career will involve fires in residential…
Why Do Firefighters Work 24-Hour Shifts?
We are all together in recognizing and addressing the significant unmanaged risks posed by Fire & EMS personnel suffering from fatigue. The dots are out there. We just need to start connecting them before, once again, someone else does it for us.
Why Don’t We Value Women in Fire & EMS?
Recently, one of my fire service and LinkedIn colleagues, Chief Cheryl Horvath, wrote about the continuing struggle that women face trying to become a part of the Fire and EMS world in the USA. I would challenge you to read both pieces—keeping in mind that the sexual misconduct and crimes at APG surfaced in 1996—and ask yourself, “How come we’ve not gotten past this kind of behavior?”
Get Community Commitment to Your Community Risk Reduction Plan
By choosing to use social media tools to engage the stakeholders in its community in developing the Community Risk Reduction plan, Cutting Edge County is giving those same stakeholders an opportunity to become skilled and practiced in their use.
Fire and EMS Work Schedules: Using Thought Leadership Media
I received the following comments in response to my recent piece, The Slow Death of the 24-Hour Tour? The comments, however, were posted by LinkedIn colleagues in response to my posting of the article on the Fire Engineering Group in LinkedIn.