© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer 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 AcademyOfficer 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 AcademyOfficer Candidate School Overview Responsibility Safety Culture At-Risk Behaviors Safety Standards Unsafe Practices DFRS Safety Division

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS – Safety Discussion Responsibility for Safety –Yours –The Division –The personnel

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer 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.

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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 AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS Safety Discussion Safety Culture – changing behavior! –Tradition –Division Focus The personnel The apparatus The stations

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS Safety Discussion You have the power to change the culture of Safety in the Division! Be a leader!

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS Safety Standards you need to be aware of: –Hazwoper –PPE , and –Sanitation Requirements –Permit Required Confined Spaces –Lock-Out/Tag-Out –Occupational Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens –NFPA 1403 Live Fire Training Evolutions

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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.

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS Safety Discussion Unsafe practices –Lifting and carrying –Not wearing PPE –Not wearing PPE correctly –Backing Policy –Collisions –Injuries

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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?

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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.

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School 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

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School OCS Discussion Remember… Everyone is ready! No one gets injured! No one has a collision! Everybody goes home!

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School Review Responsibility Safety Culture At-Risk Behaviors Safety Standards Unsafe Practices DFRS Safety Division

© 2003 Montgomery County Fire Rescue Training AcademyOfficer Candidate School This program was developed by the Montgomery County Fire/Rescue Training Academy © 2003 No part may be used or copied without the expressed written consent of the Training Officer.