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A letter from the Chief for Safety, Health and Survival Week 2011

Dear Men,

Once again, Fire/EMS Safety, Health and Survival Week is upon us, and I'd like to keep you informed of current safety and wellness issues here at Metropolitan Fire Department, as well as changes in departmental policy. As most of you know, we haven't made any changes to our S.H.I.T. for a couple of years, and frankly it's getting a little stale.

After some discussion and planning with the battalion chiefs, we decided to flush our S.H.I.T. and begin a new safety initiative, the Fire/Emergency Coalition for Employee Safety.

F.E.C.E.S. should address all the same issues as our previous program, while also allowing greater interdepartmental cooperation with Metropolitan Police Department and their safety initiative, Protection Of Operational Personnel. Together, F.E.C.E.S. and P.O.O.P. have the potential to substantially increase worker safety citywide.

I'd like all of you to remember that the success of this program requires personal investment from each and every one of you. Without your efforts, our F.E.C.E.S. aren't worth the paper they're on, and I welcome any suggestions you may have that will help us polish our F.E.C.E.S.

So with that in mind, I'd like to address a few new safety issues that have cropped up since last year:

1. With the police department's rollout of their P.O.O.P., they will be obtaining Hazmat Awareness training here at MFD. That means that our previous policy of using copological indicators at hazmat scenes will no longer be viable. Plan your scene approaches accordingly.

2. In accordance with NFPA 1901 , we will be adding reflective chevrons to all apparatus. In anticipation of further revisions of NFPA 1901, we'll also be adding reflective striping to all boots, turnout coats, helmets, hoses, dining room tables, bed linen, personal grooming products, Halligan tools, ladders, spouses, children, pets, parking spaces, and in the case of those slobs at Ladder Seven, around the toilet bowl.

I fully expect that by the time we're done striping, this entire department will look like the set of Tron.

3. To the joker that wedged the CPR manikin parts into the grill of our pumper truck, understand that such actions constitute unapproved use of departmental training equipment, and will subject the guilty party to departmental discipline. However, I must say it does part traffic far better than lights and siren alone.

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