Thursday, March 28, 2019

Fire Fighting Foam

https://www.firerescue.com.au/fire-fighting-foam-hazardous/
Fire fighting foam may have a number of applications but generally, they are used for Class A (normal combustibles like paper and organic materials), And Class B fires associated with the flammable liquid. There are other types of specialist foams which may be used in other classes, but they are very rare.

The Training of Fire Wardens Explained


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Emergency management (bushfire)

https://www.firerescue.com.au/emergency-management-bushfire/
It seems every summer now we are confronted with the effects of devastating bushfire. Emergency management of these sometime devastating bushfires has never been more critical. Furthermore, working together in harmony to overcome the challenges has become a priority. In this article I will discuss some of the challenges and whether the challenges are being [...]


How to Have an Emergency Management Plan Reduce the Impact

Friday, March 1, 2019

Airport firefighters and aviation incidents

https://www.firerescue.com.au/airport-firefighters-aviation/

Conducting operations in the field.

Over the years and with analysis of aircraft crashes there has been a need to regulate airport emergency response. We can all feel a little better with regulations determining how much firefighting and rescue equipment will be available at a given airport.
Operationally there need to be enough airport firefighters to carry out rescue and firefighting operations quickly and effectively. This is one aspect that is regulated and not left to airport management to determine.
How an Emergency Management Plan can Reduce the Impact

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Firefighter Training Programs – where to from here?

https://www.firerescue.com.au/firefighter-training-programs-where-to-from-here/

It is very easy to criticise organisation who aren’t managing there systems and processes well, but this achieves nothing. The benefits and changes will come but there is always a lag time. Some of the resources that need to be realistically analysed is the increased use of online training and incorporating it with offline training.
Really there is no reason, where practical, theory components  can’t be provided online and practical components conducted face to face at a later time. It may sound simple and in reality, it is. Without complicating thing this is where the human resources development factor comes in with an emphasis on time management and documentation. It’s here we can say that data and its analysis is king.

Monday, February 18, 2019

Firefighting 101 Life as a Firefighter.

https://www.firerescue.com.au/firefighting-101-life-as-a-firefighter/

Every public firefighting organisation has some sort of recruit firefighter program, which ranges in length from 10 to 25 weeks of training on emergency response activities including how to put out fires. These days firefighting is only part of the overall recruit training course. 

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

The Business of Command and Control

give some perspective these structures can be moulded around your own personality, but whatever you do there is a need to be put in place from day one. The emergency services and defence force are just an example of how they have used effective structures to serve the Australian people for nearly two centuries. As I’ve spoken about in other posts it’s important to not only have objectives but to have extensive detail providing a pathway to achieving objectives i.e. strategies.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

AED Phillips Heart Start Defibrillator

https://www.firerescue.com.au/ad/aed-phillips-heart-start-defibrillator/

This AED is in excellent condition and has a spare battery and everything that originally come with it. I have had it in my first aid kit since new. Below is information from the Phillips website. If you have any questions please let me know.

Friday, February 8, 2019

Span of Control From The Fire Ground

https://www.firerescue.com.au/span-of-control-from-the-fire-ground/

There are people in this world who seem to be able to recall information with ease and for that, I am very envious. In other articles, I have spoken about how complex a business can be or become. This now leads me to a discussion on the ‘span of control‘. I could discuss how there [...]

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Business Planning and Intelligence

At $10.00 per item it would seem to be almost pointless buying the item, but at $4.95 the margins would be far better. The decision you have to make is how can I finance 1000 items. There are so many other aspects to this but at least we would probably determine that at $10.00 it just won’t work.


Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Hard Case Otter Box (Black)

https://www.firerescue.com.au/ad/hard-case-otter-box-black/

Great hard case small - for protecting sensitive equipment form the elements.

Emergency Personal Seatbelt Cutter

https://www.firerescue.com.au/ad/emergency-personal-seatbelt-cutter/

The emergency personal seatbelt cutter is a great addition to any first aid kit or firefighters personal kit. 
It should be placed somewhere easy to access in case of an emergency.

Crisis Control and management of emergencies




You will hear on the news, during crises, that a journalist was addressing an episode controller. Who will utilize a type of episode the board framework. They gave a clarification of what was occurring in a given circumstance. This is the individual that has been given the general duty to carry the crisis circumstance to a viable end. It may be a basic vehicle fire, which as you could envision. Would just take a couple of firemen and two or three trucks to bring to an end.

Order and Control for the episode controller: 


Initially, suppose that the fire was a bushfire. That had been going for certain days and had obliterated various houses and networks. Furthermore, we don't simply send fire engines and expectation that they will put it out. There must be a general controller (occurrence controller) to deal with the possibly huge number of assets both physical and human.

It's conceivable to have 100's of trucks and 1000's of HR. For example, trucks should be fixed when they stall, refueled and should perform at top condition. This is the equivalent for individuals entrusted with reacting to the fire. They must be taken care of, refreshed, given briefings and upheld from numerous points of view.

Episode the executives system.


The firemen reacting to the call should have been utilized

Business is the equivalent – relying upon the multifaceted nature. They require support at each level to guarantee that the business doesn't head on a descending winding of fiascos and eventually fall flat. Likewise with the little vehicle fire I talked about, there was as yet a prerequisite for gear to be arranged and all set. Remarkably, somebody must have the option to accept the call from an individual from the network ('Triple Zero'). There must be a strategy for getting the truck out of the fire station and taken to the vehicle fire.

The firemen reacting to the call should have been utilized (how about we talk about profession firemen in this occasion). They should be kitted out with reasonable firefighting gear. At the point when they get to the scene there should be somebody in control and to assume liability for fire concealment (the Incident Controller). Furthermore, others should be prepared enough to manage the fire without harming themselves or others. I could continue endlessly.

Framework and Processes: 


How about we partner this episode the board framework with the corner bistro' and the straightforward acquisition of some espresso. Right off the bat there should be a shop in a place that individuals can get to effectively and buy the espresso. In that business, there should be somebody to oversee it. In this way guaranteeing physical and HR are accessible to create some espresso. Consider the possibility that there were no cups. It wouldn't generally matter on the off chance that you had espresso, milk, sugar and some decent hot cocoa for the top, in light of the fact that there would be nothing to hold it in and drink from.

Moreover shouldn't something be said about force, gas and different utilities? Who will manage these and would we be able to manage without them, "likely not". There are things like licenses and higher of staff before we truly can begin to do anything. This all should be overseen (Incident Controller), controlled and composed. I will discuss these ideas in future posts.

The more intricate a business turns into the all the more arranging 


As I've currently laid out above – to send a fire engine out to a vehicle fire and to make some espresso in a bistro'. There should be an administrator who has an activity plan and assets to create a successful result in both given circumstances.

The more perplexing a business turns into the all the more arranging and ensuing procedures that should be set up to accomplish objectives. There it is! "Objectives" each field-tested strategy needs overlying and fundamental 'Destinations/Goals/Aims', whichever you might want to call them. All through this blog, I will for the most part allude to them as business targets.

I trust I have now recognized the requirement for a solitary individual to assume responsibility for business. Counting dealing with each angle in that, assigning and giving administration (like the Incident Controller). Explicitly guaranteeing that capacities like arranging, activities and coordinations are successfully managed such that will accomplish business congruity.

I will talk about the particular elements of the Business Controller (Incident Controller) later in different presents on plot what you have to do to be effective in any business. The episode the executives framework is all around utilized over the world.