The "Training Effect"

Think about the last trainings that you have conducted or attended in your department.

Are they having any effect? Sure, everyone was there, and everyone enjoyed the session, maybe even some of them thought it was "fun".

But, will they use the training you just gave them on their next emergency or will that just be more of the book stuff that really doesn't work out here in the street.

Is all of the current safety and survival training making any one of us really safer?

There is currently a lot of debate about this, both pro and con.

Over the course of the next couple of commentaries I would like to hear from those of you that wish to be included.

In order to become more safe, we need to look at a number of issues.

Much training and debate is being done right now focussing on how to reduce the 100 firefighter deaths each year.
I am certainly a proponent of that, but what about the 90,000 injuries?

How many of those injuries are near miss fatalities and doesn't that say something about the way we operate?

The messages are pretty simple:

If you are the training officer in your department, and you really don't believe the safety message you are giving, then the men probably won't either.

Till next week....

Stay safe!