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© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
Officer Candidate School
Behavior-Based Safety and the First Line Supervisor
Developed by Assistant Chief Richard Bowers
© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
Student Performance Objective
• The student will explain the department’s behavior-based safety initiatives as related to the first-line supervisory, from memory without assistance, to a minimum written test accuracy of 85%.
© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
Overview
• Responsibility
• Safety Culture
• At-Risk Behaviors
• Safety Standards
• Unsafe Practices
• DFRS Safety Division
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OCS – Safety Discussion
• Responsibility for Safety– Yours– The Division– The personnel
© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
OCS Safety Discussion
• Your responsibility for Safety– Leadership position – lead by example– Injuries cost time and money– You have a responsibility to the employees
and their families to return them home safely.
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OCS Safety Discussion
• The Division’s Responsibility– NFPA 1500– Safety if the personnel is a number one
priority of the present leadership.– Everyone has a responsibility
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OCS Safety Discussion
• The Personnel’s Responsibilities– Be operationally ready.– Wear your PPE and wear it correctly.– Help each other.
© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
OCS Safety Discussion
• Safety Culture – changing behavior!– Tradition– Division Focus
• The personnel• The apparatus• The stations
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OCS Safety Discussion
• At risk behaviors– Lifting patients– Failure to wear PPE– Failure to wear PPE correctly– Failure to wear seat belts– Failure to follow the backing policy– Failure to participate in Physical Fitness
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OCS Safety Discussion
You have the power to change the culture of Safety in the Division!
Be a leader!
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OCS
• Safety Standards you need to be aware of:– Hazwoper 1910.120– PPE 1910.132,1910.136 and 1910.138– Sanitation Requirements 1910.141– Permit Required Confined Spaces 1910.146– Lock-Out/Tag-Out 1910.147– Occupational Exposure to Blood Borne
Pathogens 1910.1030– NFPA 1403 Live Fire Training Evolutions
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OCS Safety Discussion
• Risk• We will risk a lot to save a life.• We will little to save little.
Risk Assessment vs. Benefit
Life vs. Property
Injury vs. Death
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OCS Safety Discussion
• Get Involved– Identify routine unsafe acts in the Division– Identify behaviors that need to be corrected– Identify measures that need to be
implemented to change the safety culture of the Division.
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OCS Safety Discussion
• Unsafe practices– Lifting and carrying– Not wearing PPE– Not wearing PPE correctly– Backing Policy– Collisions– Injuries
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OCS Safety Discussion
• How do YOU fix the SAFETY Problems:– The Safety Culture of the Division?– The Safety attitude of the personnel?– What are the behaviors that need to change?– What measures need to be implemented to
support the move to a safer organization?
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OCS Safety Discussion
• Practical Exercise
– Review the video tape of Holbrook Shopping Center Fire Incident
– Identify safety considerations– Identify at risk safety behaviors– Identify the mechanism to change the unsafe
behaviors.
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OCS Safety Discussion
• DFRS Safety Office– Assistant Chief Richie Bowers – Safety Chief– District Chief Greg DeHaven – Assistant
Safety Officer– Shift Safety Captains
• A shift – Mike Grierson• B shift – Scott Goldstein• C shift – Valerie Tarbox• Relief – Mike Nelson
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OCS Safety Discussion
• Safety Captains Duties and responsibilities– Station Safety Inspections– PPE Safety Inspections– Injury Investigations– Collision Investigations– Post Incident Critique Assistance– Infectious Control Assistance– Apparatus Safety
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OCS Safety Discussion
Primary Duties of Safety Captains
• Captain Mike Grierson – Apparatus Safety
• Captain Scott Goldstein – PPE/ SCBA Fit Testing
• Captain Valerie Tarbox – Station Safety Inspections
• Captain Mike Nelson – Special Safety Projects
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OCS Discussion
Remember…
Everyone is ready!
No one gets injured!
No one has a collision!
Everybody goes home!
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Review
• Responsibility
• Safety Culture
• At-Risk Behaviors
• Safety Standards
• Unsafe Practices
• DFRS Safety Division
© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training Academy Officer Candidate School
This program was developed by the Montgomery County Fire/Rescue Training Academy
© 2003No part may be used or copied without the expressed
written consent of the Training Officer.
