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  1. Chapter four, eliminating unsafe acts by Brandon White.
  2. Mhm. Firefighter empowerment Empowerment is a tricky subject to tackle
  3. while in it in itself it means to give someone
  4. power and authority.
  5. It doesn't mean anyone can go about creating what they
  6. see fit.
  7. Although this premise may be confusing as firefighters who we
  8. can and should focus on the type of empowerment that
  9. creates improvement and stops unsafe act.
  10. It's a fine line of morality to walk to make
  11. sure a proper empowerment is being used.
  12. We need to remember these three main components.
  13. Education, enablement empowerment education to ensure the proper use of
  14. empowerment is happening within your fire service, the personnel around
  15. you, it needs to properly be educated on the topic,
  16. firefighters respond to an insanely broad spectrum of calls.
  17. So being educated in many ways so we'll help you
  18. and your team be a successful in unpredictable situations.
  19. But just because theoretically, you know how to help doesn't
  20. mean it's always your place to help.
  21. Yeah, enablement after the proper education of personnel, you need
  22. to connect with them and find out what kinds of
  23. things need to be empowered for the better of the
  24. community. Once those interests are found, you've got to find
  25. the safest best way to pursue it and how to
  26. better enable the personnel to accomplish that goal.
  27. Yeah, Yeah.
  28. Empowerment. Now that we're educated and enabled empowerment cannot properly
  29. begin, it may not be necessary necessarily be part of
  30. the job description, but if there there is an emergency
  31. that you're educated on and have the proper tools to
  32. help you are you are empowered to help with educate
  33. without education and enablement.
  34. Empowerment is worthless.
  35. Topic two.
  36. The term accident in itself is often misused in the
  37. service an accident is defined as an unpredictable and unpreventable
  38. occurrence with unexpected results.
  39. In reality, most accidental fires and vehicle accidents are preventable
  40. and predictable.
  41. They're unintentional.
  42. That's why people misuse the term safety equipment.
  43. When it comes to safety equipment and PPE, things might
  44. seem over the top.
  45. But when you ask questions to better understand your PPE,
  46. it makes a lot of a lot more sense what
  47. incident came about that led to this piece of equipment.
  48. Look at the equipment, it's a design.
  49. It's designed that way for a reason.
  50. What is that reason?
  51. Yeah. Does this equipment protect me?
  52. Does it make my job any safer?
  53. Does it compliment my work or get in the way?
  54. Finally, would you want your loved ones and to use
  55. it if they had your job operational redundancies also called
  56. accident chains.
  57. Every operation has its potential flaws that by themselves poses
  58. no threat into the operation.
  59. But when those flaws linked together, performing an accident chain,
  60. that chain of events can become disastrous James reason.
  61. A world leading expert on human Air compares an unpredictable
  62. cheese slices to accident chains, Every slice of cheese has
  63. holes and just like every operation has its potential failures.
  64. Neither situations that cause problems directly by itself, but stacking
  65. that cheese and it with several other slices and things
  66. can get complicated.
  67. Alright, topic three, recognizing unsafe acts, it's easy to spot
  68. a catastrophic event in motion, but once moving it's hard
  69. to stop.
  70. That's why you should be on the lookout for the
  71. unsafe acts that puts disasters into motion.
  72. The four Categories of Unsafe Acts are visible.
  73. Invisible. Poor decisions and destruction events.
  74. Mhm visible unsafe ox are the overly talked about rules
  75. of everyday life, like putting on your protection every time
  76. you use a machine, even if it's not that loud
  77. that happened.
  78. That habit will catch up to you sooner than later.
  79. Things like this are so over talked about just for
  80. that reason, there is such a minor occurrences that we
  81. tend not to care about them, but just because they're
  82. minor occurrences doesn't mean it's not a common thing.
  83. The more you're exposed to those scenarios, the more potential
  84. to danger you have.
  85. Yeah. Mhm.
  86. Invisible unsafe acts are quite the opposite of visible ones.
  87. They're the unspoken near misses, random near misses.
  88. The incidents that are not as rare as you think
  89. that's why they're so dangerous.
  90. We need to, we need people to speak up more
  91. about these near misses so that they so that we
  92. can bring more awareness to them and make things safer.
  93. Yeah. Okay.
  94. Yeah. Poor decisions.
  95. Our federal firefighting is a tough career.
  96. It's a cutthroat business where you have to make decisions
  97. on a dime while multiple lives hanging in the outcome
  98. of your decision not to mention the hazardous conditions that
  99. you're thrown in.
  100. It isn't.
  101. It is imperative at that every decision you make, you
  102. are thinking of your highest capacity without letting go invite
  103. your critical thinking and common sense.
  104. Yeah, yeah, destruction events throughout emergency calls and lots of
  105. things that are going on around you.
  106. And it's easy to lose track of things while you
  107. may be feeling accomplished because you did one thing riot,
  108. you could have totally missed.
  109. Five other things.
  110. Getting too wrapped up in the moment can lead to
  111. small things and getting overlooked.
  112. Tonight we have a come full circle in discussing how
  113. to eliminate unsafe acts from empowerment, how to be safe
  114. for yourself to recognizing an unsafe acts.
  115. In conclusion, firefighting is the best job out there.
  116. Thank you.