Command Safety

15 Comments

Comment by R Griffin on January 24, 2009 at 9:24pm

Great group....alot of info BE SAFE!!!

Comment by Jenny Holderby on October 27, 2008 at 11:50pm

Phillip, NFPA 1521 tells you what a Safety Officer is & what we do. Those standards are sometimes difficult to meet but we should always TRY to come up to par with them. I can recommend some classes for you; first is Fire Department Incident Safety Officer which is a good class for all firefighters to have. FIRE DEPARTMENT HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER is a longer class that is more indepth. I can also HIGHLY RECOMMEND the Advanced Safety Operations Management from the National Fire Academy. Christopher has posted some really good references here & the Everybody Goes Home site is one of the best.

Being a safety officer doesn't mean you do rehab on scene or make sure everybody has his/her gear on & pass out water. There is more to it than some SOs realize or even the departments they are members of want to understand.

Here is another website that might interst you:
http://www.firerescue1.com/Columnists/Fire-Department-Safety-Officers-Association/

there are some good publications out there as well
http://www.delmarlearning.com/browse_product_detail.aspx?catid=22594&isbn=1418009423

good luck

Comment by mike wright on August 29, 2008 at 10:05pm

Hello, I am a captain on the fire dept that i am on. I have taken the saftey officer class. I am hoping to get some new ideas from this group and leave some new ideas with you as well.

Comment by Patrick J. Petronico on August 29, 2008 at 12:20pm

What do you think is the greatest safety issue facing responders during a multi agency response?

I found the inability to communiocate on a common frequency is a very dangerous situation.

Comment by Phillip L Queen on August 28, 2008 at 1:25pm

What do you think that the minimum requirments should be to work as a safety officer for a fire department?

Comment by CaptJoeE6L6 on August 24, 2008 at 5:16pm

Would like to join this group

Comment by Dave, NB 9 on August 19, 2008 at 7:01pm

Just joined the group. Look forward to post.

Comment by Philip Vastano on August 17, 2008 at 3:16pm

well at least everyones clear away thats good

Comment by Christopher J. Naum, SFPE on August 10, 2008 at 10:28pm

Check out the posting on: Collapsing Masonry Wall Near Miss in the Building Construction & Firefighter Safety Group posted 08/10/2008.

Comment by Tyson Humbyrd on August 6, 2008 at 12:48pm

This is a great group and seeing how I recently taking over as Safety Officer in my department I hope to get some good ideas from this group to help me

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