Near-Miss host John Tippett talks with FDNY Lt. Michael Wilbur about the issue of seatbelt usage in the fire service.
Listen as they review two near-miss reports that involve seatbelts and further discuss this hot topic and how it relates to safe arrival. Tippett says "Wearing a seat belt is an extension of your PPE."
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In this edition of Near-Miss Listen & Learn, Battalion Chief John Tippett talks with Mike Dubron of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network about cancer and firefighters. Dubron, a firefighter/paramedic with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, is a cancer survivor and helped create the Firefighter Cancer Support Network.
The two examine a Firefighter Near-Miss report on firefighter cancer and Dubron offers a wealth of information on firefighter cancers, the importance of examinations and more.
In this edition of Near-Miss Listen & Learn, Battalion Chief John Tippett examines incidents where incident safety officers were lacking. What impact did it have on the incidents? He also discusses reports where safety officers knew, and did the right thing.
Tippett explores why the role of the incident safety officer is becoming recognized as an indispensable component of every incident scene.
This edition of Near-Miss Listen & Learn continues the series on Crew Resource Management (CRM) and details several reports that had outcomes relying on task allocation. Battalion Chief John Tippett discusses why the assignment of tasks should be based on the previous training and an environment that supports the the duties that are assigned.
In this edition of Near-Miss Listen and Learn, Battalion Chief John Tippett focuses on the crew resource management principle of situational awareness and features a near-miss report that highlights hazards associated with cold weather.
Operating in cold weather presents a number of impacts that affect situational awareness.
Chief Tippett also offers recommendations on methods to help remember the situational checklist and crew mental joggers.
One of the key elements in any firefighting operation is teamwork, which is one of the key components of crew resource management (CRM.)In this podcast, Battalion Chief John Tippett looks at two reports from the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System that explore the roll of teamwork CRM.In one incident, a firefighter notified others working inside the fire building of four-foot drop off. The other reports examines the collapse and relays the importance of teamwork in getting tasks accomplished.
How do we know what to do when faced with a situation? Experts in human behavior under stress tell us that emergency responders develop a cognition process that allows them to recall previous experiences to speed up the decision making process.
In this edition of the Near-Miss Listen and Learn podcast, we'll explore four reports from www.firefighternearmiss.com. Two of the reports have less than favorable outcomes because of decisions made and two have favorable outcomes.
Crew function and dysfunction are frequently cited as performance factors on the incident scene. Thirty years ago the commercial aviation industry launched a groundbreaking change in the way it looked at airline crew performance after it recognized that more often than not it was the people flying the plane responsible for the crash, not the plane itself.
We're in the dog days of summer. All over the country firefighters are dealing with temperature extremes in weather and operations conditions. This edition of Near-Miss Listen and Learn takes a look at the topic of operations during excessive heat.
In this first edition of Near-Miss Listen & Learn the focus is on the three topics of the 2008 Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Safety Week. Reports covered include a seatbelt saving a firefighter from falling out of the truck when the door handle was struck, an annual medical physical resulting in bypass surgery and a report to remind us of the importance of using all PPE, including facemasks, on vehicle fires.
