Fire Officer's Guide to Occupational Safety & Health

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