Home Programs Are Success Stories

¶ … Home programs are success stories which are still happening today in the departments around the United States of America. (USA). It is evident that, the firefighters are presently adopting as well as promoting the importance of Everyone Goes Home programs and the 16 Firefighters Life Safety Initiatives. The program helps the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in preventing the firefighter line-of-duty deaths and injuries.

LODD (Line of Duty Death) Root causes While there was a decline in the number of structural fires in the U.S.A., the firefighter line of duty (LODD) did not exhibit the same proportional rate of decline. The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation identified the root causes of LODDs and the roles of Leadership, as it impacts the end result. Most of the firefighters in the U.S. lack enough rights in stuffing which prevents them from being on the required path to a line-of-duty death.

The untold story of LODD survivors reveals on how most family members are living with the consequences of a firefighter death while providing a focus on the need for those firefighters along with the officers who can manage to change the fundamental behaviors of preventing the line of duty deaths (Clark, 2013). The facts and statistics regarding the USFA Fatalities showed that, fatalities can be prevented. The statistics shows that, many factors are known to have be contributing to the fatal incident at work or at home.

This might be caused by lack of appropriate employees training or failures in providing as well as enforcing the use of safety equipments are the most contributors to fatalities. Overview of the 16 Firefighter Initiatives The 16 fire fighters initiatives are very important in the current and future operations within the fire departments and agencies. The first initiative involves advocating need for cultural change within the fire service that relates to safety with the incorporation of leadership, management, accountability, supervision as well as personnel responsibility.

Initiative two entails enhancement of personal and organizational accountability which ensures safety and health in the entire fire service. Initiative three focuses on integrating risk management which involves incident management at all levels like strategic and planning responsibilities. Initiative four requires empowerment of firefighters to ensure unsafe practices are stopped. Initiative five requires that national standards for training, qualifications as well as certification are developed and implemented. Initiative six involves the development and implementation of medical as well as physical fitness that are applicable to all fighters equally.

Initiative seven is for creation of research agenda that is on a national platform as well as data collection strategies that relate to the initiatives. Initiative eight utilizes technology that is available so as high levels of health and safety are produced. Initiative nine calls for a thorough investigation of all fire fighter fatalities and injuries. Initiative ten calls for grant programs support implementing safe practices as requirement for eligibility.

Initiative eleven encourages the development of national standards in place for emergency response policies .the twelfth initiative entails the development and championing of national protocols in support of response to incidences that are violent. The thirteenth initiative requires that fire fighters and their families access counseling as well as psychological support. The fourteenth initiative entails the public education receiving more resources and championed as a life safety and fire program that is critical.

The fifteenth initiative ensures that advocacy has to be strengthened so as codes are enforced as well as installation of fire sprinklers in homes. Finally the sixteenth initiative shows that safety should be an important consideration when equipments are designed. Five steps implementing the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives Implementing these initiatives involves the establishment of organization cultures that embrace health and safety fully. This calls for change in.