View from the Street * January 2017

By Eric Reddeck, NFFF Everyone Goes Home Advocate http://www.everyonegoeshome.com

In 2017 leadership needs to get out of the office and look around in the field. To see if the best practices are being used in TIM. Leadership should attend the local Traffic Incident Management committee meetings, Leadership should check to see if they have the most updated equipment, like Emergency Preemption of Traffic Signals. Leadership should joined TIM Network http://timnetwork.org/ and view TIM NETWORK on Facebook National Traffic Incident Management Coalition

A timely article on Normalization of Deviance- If you take a risk and nothing bad happens, it becomes the common way of doing things. Chief Ludwig on Leadership and The Normalization of Deviance
Online training can be found at Responder Safety Learning Network http://learning.respondersafety.com/ and National TIM training by state 12/31/16 can be found at National Association of State EMS Officials – TIM
2017 Killed in the Line of Duty *all causes*
Eric Reddeck hrfsoc@cox.net
NFFF Everyone Goes Home Advocate http://www.everyonegoeshome.com

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