Transcript Chapter 7 Creating a Research Agenda 7-1

Chapter 7
Creating a Research Agenda
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Introduction
• One of the greatest problems with the advancement
of the fire service is the lack of hard data available
• The fire service has worked hard trying to collect data
• Once data is obtained, it is of little use until it is
researched, analyzed, and utilized
• An effective research system would establish how the
data are submitted, organized, and scrutinized
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Life Safety Initiative 7
Create a national research agenda and data collection
system that relates to the initiatives
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Life Safety Initiative 7
RESEARCH AS A TOOL
• Types of research
• Basic
• Applied
• Categories of data
• Using a research hypothesis
• Research and development (R&D)
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Life Safety Initiative 7
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• Defining a cultural change (Initiative 1)
• Existing culture based on beliefs and attitudes
• Change must take place individually and organizationally
• Need to instill safety into our culture without upsetting tradition
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• Enhancing accountability (Initiative 2)
• Accountability is a decision
• Organizational accountability
• Generally a corporate decision
• Is a formal adoption of change
• Starts at the top
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• Applying risk management techniques (Initiative 3)
• Scientific community risk assessment
• Flashover and collapse prediction
• Situational awareness
• Wildland firefighting operations
• Risk management for incident management
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• Applying risk management techniques (Initiative 3)
Source: NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce
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• Eliminating unsafe acts (Initiative 4)
• Individual empowerment
• Identify unsafe acts
• Prevent unsafe acts
• Key concepts of CRM
into rapid intervention
Courtesy of Lt. Rob Gandee
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• Implementing training and certification standards
(Initiative 5)
• Recruit-level training
• Instructor development
• Live fire training
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• Implementing training and certification standards
(Initiative 5)
• Training simulators
• Professional
development
• Computer-based
training and education
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• Developing medical and fitness standards (Initiative 6)
• Health maintenance
• Physiological response to emergencies
• Candidate physical assessment
• CPAT
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• Creating a research agenda (Initiative 7)
• Data requirements
• Data related to exposure
• Data sharing and access
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Courtesy of Lt. Rob Gandee
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• Utilizing available technology (Initiative 8)
• Respiratory protection
• Fire detection and extinguishing agents
• Incipient stage
• Alternative “green” chemicals
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• Investigating fatalities, injuries, and near-misses
(Initiative 9)
• Everyone Goes Home (EGH) campaign
• National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting System
• Information gained from sharing statistics
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• Blending grants and safety (Initiative 10)
• Research is the most effective way to validate or establish a need
for a grant
• Requiring specific safe practices of applicants
• Effectiveness of such programs can result in stronger and more
successful future agendas
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• Establishing response standards (Initiative 11)
• Strategic response to risk
• Communications operability and interoperability
• Performance measures
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• Examining response to violent incidents (Initiative 12)
• Smart but also effective responses
• Hostage situations
• Need standard procedures
• Research is vital
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• Providing emotional support (Initiative 13)
• Substance abuse
• Alternatives to substance abuse
• Post incident stress management
• Alternative methods of counseling and rehab
• Psychological first aid
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• Enabling public education (Initiative 14)
• Targeted problems and evaluation
• Identify appropriate audiences, messages, and programs
• Reduce the number or severity of fires
• Is vital to target effective practices
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• Advocating residential fire sprinklers (Initiative 15)
• Public awareness
• Change image to effective life-saving equipment
• Active versus passive fire protection
• Make educated decisions for specific levels of protection
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• Engineering safety into equipment (Initiative 16)
• Use injury, fatality, and near-miss reports
• Engineers can identify ways to build equipment safer
• Manufacturers could contribute to this initiative
• Increase research during the design phase
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DATA COLLECTION
• Creating a hypothesis
• Data collection plan
• Analyzing the data
• Utilizing the data
• Short, medium, and long term goals
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Summary
• Haven’t yet learned to use research to its fullest
potential when it comes to creating a safer work
environment
• Initiative 7 calls for a national research agenda
• Industry-wide team effort to design a system to
collect, evaluate, and utilize data strengthens each
initiative
• By assembling experts in scientific research we can
make positive changes in reducing injuries and death
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