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Research: Mindfulness and Self-Compassionate Leadership Development

Leave a Comment / CRR, Health & Safety, Leadership & Personnel, Research, Wildland / By Ellis Ellis

Individuals who integrate these processes in their lives have been found to maintain and build important personal resources. Managers in this study best resonated with the concepts of mindfulness and self-compassion through four main methods of relating them to personal fire experiences that offer guidance to other managers. They saw value in training fire personnel …

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Updated:11 Best Practices to Prevent Firefighter Cancer

Leave a Comment / CRR, Health & Safety, Leadership & Personnel, Research / By Ellis Ellis

The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) and International Association of Fire Chiefs’ (IAFC’s) Volunteer and Combination Officers Section (VCOS) released and update to the Lavender Ribbon Report: Best Practices for Preventing Firefighter Cancer. The report resents 11 specific, easy-to-follow actions firefighters need to take to lessen their risk of occupational cancer. In this report, the …

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Updated Fire Death Rate and Risk by State

Leave a Comment / Communications & Technology, CRR, Fire Prevention, Research / By Ellis Ellis

The overall 10-year fire death rate trend increased 3% from 2010 to 2019. This research presents a snapshot of fire losses by state reported through the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) in 2019. Also included is information about fire departments and firefighter and home fire fatalities in 2021.

Report: Support Networks Lower Suicide Rates

Leave a Comment / CRR, Health & Safety, Research / By Ellis Ellis

The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS Office) released a report to the United States Congress in April 2021 in response to an increase in suicides among law enforcement officers and other first responders. After evaluating behavioral health programs across the nation, the COPS Office report found that departments have been most …

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Update: CDC Infection Control Guidance

Leave a Comment / CRR, EMS, Research / By Ellis Ellis

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its Infection Control Guidance for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19). The guidance includes updated quarantine recommendations for fully vaccinated patients who have had close contact with someone with a COVID-19 infection, recommended testing intervals for asymptomatic health care providers, and the incorporation of previous CDC …

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Top wildfire expert prescribes controlled burns as preventive care

Leave a Comment / CRR, Fire Prevention, Research, Wildland / By Ellis Ellis

Scientists testified before Congress on Tuesday to request funding for new software that predicts the behavior of ever bigger fires — to compute, for example, how a wildfire would move through a residential neighborhood. The next day, President Biden promised to provide more resources, including higher pay for federal firefighters and making those positions year-round …

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The mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs

Leave a Comment / Leadership & Personnel, Research / By Ellis Ellis

The CEO’s job is as difficult as it is important. Here is a guide to how the best CEOs think and act. To show which mindsets and practices are proven to make CEOs most effective, we studied performance data on thousands of CEOs and revisited our firsthand experience helping CEOs enhance their leadership approaches.

Making U.S. Fire Departments More Diverse and Inclusive

Leave a Comment / Health & Safety, Leadership & Personnel, Research / By Ellis Ellis

Many fire departments recognize that their lack of diversity is a problem and say they’re committed to increasing racial and gender diversity. But what’s the actual path for departments achieving more diversity? And if they do so, will their members embrace how it improves their organization?

Research Corner: Outdoor Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Systems

Leave a Comment / Communications & Technology, Fire Prevention, Hazmat, Research / By Ellis Ellis

UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute conducted three experiments on an intermodal container that was configured to represent an outdoor modular walk-in energy storage system, such as the one where an explosion occurred in April 2019. The experiments were designed to demonstrate the fundamental fire and explosion hazards that develop when cascading thermal runaway occurs inside …

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GIS May Be Key to the Future of Emergency Response

Leave a Comment / Communications & Technology, CRR, Fire Prevention, Research / By Ellis Ellis

No one can predict when an emergency will occur or what shape it will take. It could look like a hurricane causing widespread power outages and downed trees, or it could be a chemical fire that takes place down the road from a hospital housing hundreds of at-risk patients.