Establishing Response Standards Case Study
“In 2004 The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) was tasked with promulgating the initiatives throughout the fire service, and developing material to support their implementation.” When NFF determined they had to do this they organized the “Everyone goes home program, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is a program that emphasizes the safety of our firefighters and urges everyone to be safe as safe as possible not only when on the fire ground, but at all times. With the establishment of the Everyone goes home program came the 16 life safety initiatives. The most important of the 16 is number 11 Response Policies also known as Establishing Response Standards. This initiative brings in minimum
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Since not applicable to all there is a system in place to separate standards that everyone should follow, standards that should be followed by different departments, and standards that should be followed in case of special events. FEMA has established levels of policies and procedures to divide up these standards into three different categories. The first category is known as series one or S1, which are standards that are already current on a national level. Standards that are to be followed by department or known as S2 standards. The S2 category is more of a template than anything allowing departments to construct around that template making an SOP specific to their department. This allows for other departments to work closely with the department, because they may have not identical but hopefully similar SOP’s. Whereas the series three SOP’s are completely specialized to the department and are very specific on how things have to be done, for example permanent trench rescue, or things that are specific due to weather hazards, or even due to high risk targets where there may be a safety factor present that you constantly have to be thinking about. There are many different standards that calls for different departments to do things differently, but the more standards that are nationalized the better we can be as a service
Since not applicable to all there is a system in place to separate standards that everyone should follow, standards that should be followed by different departments, and standards that should be followed in case of special events. FEMA has established levels of policies and procedures to divide up these standards into three different categories. The first category is known as series one or S1, which are standards that are already current on a national level. Standards that are to be followed by department or known as S2 standards. The S2 category is more of a template than anything allowing departments to construct around that template making an SOP specific to their department. This allows for other departments to work closely with the department, because they may have not identical but hopefully similar SOP’s. Whereas the series three SOP’s are completely specialized to the department and are very specific on how things have to be done, for example permanent trench rescue, or things that are specific due to weather hazards, or even due to high risk targets where there may be a safety factor present that you constantly have to be thinking about. There are many different standards that calls for different departments to do things differently, but the more standards that are nationalized the better we can be as a service