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Near-Miss Reporting Launched At Fire-Rescue International
Updated: 08-12-2005 08:37:58 PM
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The ribbon was cut Friday on a Web site that International Association of Fire Chiefs President Chief Bob DiPoli said will, "revolutionize how we share information. The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System at http://www.firefighternearmiss.com was officially launched at the IAFC"s Fire-Rescue International conference in Denver.
Looking desperately for a way to cut down on firefighter injuries and deaths, DiPoli called the reporting system "the fire house kitchen going virtual" and becoming national clearinghouse for near-miss incidents. Those close calls that are normally discussed around the table and that go no further, DiPoli hopes will be entered and tracked in a national data base for trends that call for actions to prevent firefighter injury and death.
During a conference program Thursday, 250 attending chief officers listened to a description of the system and what was hoped to be accomplished. The aviation industry has had a near-miss reporting system since 1976. It is expected to receive over 40,000 reports in 2005. It is without question a determining factor in the great flight safety improvements realized since then.
Dennis Smith asked the chiefs in the room, "what do you have control over? The behavior of your firefighters. This system that we are talking about is deadly serious and it can have extraordinary consequences. And the consequence you might never see"..that this close-call reporting system will alert us to the near- miss deaths and injuries to firefighters and will help us prevent this. It can"t work without you"your are the critical link in the chain."
Battalion Chief John Tippett, Montgomery County (MD) Fire and Rescue Service and the reporting system project manager for IAFC said it is thought there are 300 near-misses for every accident involving firefighters, and 600 near-misses for every fatality. The idea is to get the near-miss information out to the firefighter before they suffer a tragic incident. "The best time to intervene is before the accident or fatality," he said
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Updated: 08-12-2005 08:37:58 PM
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LON SLEPICA
Firehouse.Com News
The ribbon was cut Friday on a Web site that International Association of Fire Chiefs President Chief Bob DiPoli said will, "revolutionize how we share information. The National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System at http://www.firefighternearmiss.com was officially launched at the IAFC"s Fire-Rescue International conference in Denver.
Looking desperately for a way to cut down on firefighter injuries and deaths, DiPoli called the reporting system "the fire house kitchen going virtual" and becoming national clearinghouse for near-miss incidents. Those close calls that are normally discussed around the table and that go no further, DiPoli hopes will be entered and tracked in a national data base for trends that call for actions to prevent firefighter injury and death.
During a conference program Thursday, 250 attending chief officers listened to a description of the system and what was hoped to be accomplished. The aviation industry has had a near-miss reporting system since 1976. It is expected to receive over 40,000 reports in 2005. It is without question a determining factor in the great flight safety improvements realized since then.
Dennis Smith asked the chiefs in the room, "what do you have control over? The behavior of your firefighters. This system that we are talking about is deadly serious and it can have extraordinary consequences. And the consequence you might never see"..that this close-call reporting system will alert us to the near- miss deaths and injuries to firefighters and will help us prevent this. It can"t work without you"your are the critical link in the chain."
Battalion Chief John Tippett, Montgomery County (MD) Fire and Rescue Service and the reporting system project manager for IAFC said it is thought there are 300 near-misses for every accident involving firefighters, and 600 near-misses for every fatality. The idea is to get the near-miss information out to the firefighter before they suffer a tragic incident. "The best time to intervene is before the accident or fatality," he said
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