Since we began our goal has been to educate and promote self leadership. To change the way firefighters think, what they believe, what they perceive. The last decade has seen quantum growth in the way we communicate, work and learn. I do not think anyone of us could have imagined such progress and opportunity. The Public Safety Education Network wants a strong core of men and women who believe that together everyone achieves more. PSEN is adapting to new challenges. We will strengthen our focus on those areas that continue to contribute to preventable line-of-duty deaths to firefighters. Our material will focus on the links below. Thank you for your continued support.
PSEN in conjunction with the Fire Department Safety Officers Association (FDSOA) is pleased to introduce our online Health and Safety Officer certification program.
Like the online Incident Safety Officer program it is designed to adjunct your study of Occupational Safety and Health in the Emergency Services 2nd edition, written by James S. Angle.
Online presentations of each chapter along with practice chapter knowledge exams. MP3 download so that you can listen while on the road. Keep in mind that these are designed to adjunct the more in-depth material found in the study guide.
I recently had the opportunity to teach FDSOA Incident Safety Officer in Dublin, OH. Forty nine firefighters from all ranks participated in the FDSOA/PSEN online Incident Safety Officer Program. After a one month preparation period I went to town for a two day visit. The first day was a review of all the material they had studied before arrival. The balance of the class was a scenario based ISO discussion, referencing fire ground video found on the web. We closed with the official FDSOA Certification Examination.
If you would like to peek into a brief few minutes of the class please do. In this short clip we were exchanging ideas on mastery and competency.
The International Association of Fire Chiefs and the International Association of Firefighters sponsor 2010 Fire/EMS Safety, Health & Survival week (Safety Week). The theme this year is "Fit for Duty" and covers a variety of extremely important topics relative to health and fitness. During Safety Stand Down departments are also encouraged to support educational programs that build and maintain medically and physically fit personnel to reduce health and fitness-related deaths or injuries, which is what this program will do - providing you use it! If your department is not able to train during Safety Stand Down - then pick another day or another week. What matters is that you train to prevent death and injury.
Without vision we can not change .. without change we can not grow ..
without growth we can not succeed .. bcolameta
Without
vision we can not change .. without change we can not grow
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without growth we can not succeed .. bcolameta
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Robert J Colameta
Incident Safety Officer - Dublin, OH
