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Highway Safety for Emergency Service
Personnel
 Fire
Departments and other Emergency Service
Organizations respond to a wide variety of
incidents involving operations on, or near a
highway. These operations pose special risks
to personnel performing fire, rescue,
traffic control, and EMS functions. Every
year a significant number of emergency
service personnel are killed or injured
while operating on highways.
The following
information and resources are provided to
assist CSFCA members in understanding the risk
to
emergency service personnel responding to
highway
incidents and the measures that can be taken
to reduce this risk. |
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“Firefighters responding to calls need to
operate as if someone is trying to run them
over.” James Joyce,
former Commissioner of the Chicago Fire
Department |
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Training
Resources |
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Managing Emergency Incidents on the Roadway©
A training program of
Emergency Responder Safety Institute, see:
www.respondersafety.com |
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Managing Emergency
Incidents on the Roadway – Instructor Manual,
Emergency Responder Safety Institute (7MB
PDF) |
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“Watch out behind
you!” Responder Safety on the Roadway,
Emergency Responder Safety Institute (5MB
PPT) |
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Highway
Incident Safety for Emergency Responders©
Download Presentation
- PowerPoint File (1.7 MB)
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Author: Jack
Sullivan, CSP, CFPS
Lt. & Safety Officer (ret.) - Lionville Fire
Co., Lionville, PA
Director of Training,
Emergency Responder
Safety Institute
Email:
JSullivan@LCInnovations.com |
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Highway Safety for Emergency
Service Personnel
A training program of VFIS® a division of
the Glatfelter Insurance Group, see:
www.vfis.com. |
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Highway Safety for
Emergency Service Personnel - Participant’s
Manual (5MB PDF) |
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Highway Safety for
Emergency Service Personnel - PowerPoint
Presentation (7MB) |
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Colorado Public Safety
Week - PowerPoint Presentation |
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Additional Resources |
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Protecting Emergency
Responders on the Highways (White
Paper),
Emergency Responder Safety Institute (PDF) |
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Developing Traffic
Control Assistant Training Programs,
Emergency Responder Safety Institute (PDF) |
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Sample Fire Department
SOP/SOG: Safe Positioning While Operating in
or Near Moving Traffic,
Emergency Responder Safety Institute
(MS-Word) |
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Motorists
Urged To "Slow Down and Move Over" in PSA |
A national
Public Service Announcement (PSA) urging
motorists to “slow down and move over”
premiered on August 18, 2010 at the Delaware
City (DE) Fire Company.
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Link to PSA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0gnES7uf8
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NIOSH Reports |
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Traffic Hazards to
Fire Fighters While Working Along Roadways
(NIOSH Publication No. 2001-143) |
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NIOSH Report 99F-27,
Oklahoma - 2 Career Firefighters Were Struck
on an Interstate; One Was Killed, and one
with Serious Injuries. (August 5,
1999) |
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Law Enforcement Resources |
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Your Vest Won't Stop
This Bullet: A Guide to Safer Traffic Stops,
The Police Chief, July 2005 (Online) |
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Your Vest Won't Stop
This Bullet
(Online Video) |
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National Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial - Causes of
Police Deaths (2000-2009) |
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This page was last
updated on
August 24, 2010 |
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