Category: Personnel Safety

Attacks on Police: Common Factors Among Assailants

Attacks on Police: Common Factors Among Assailants

[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]When the FBI released “The Assailant Study – Mindsets and Behaviors” last month, most of the coverage focused on the study’s findings that “departments—and individual...

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Firefighter Line-of-Duty Deaths: Combat the Stats

Firefighter Line-of-Duty Deaths: Combat the Stats

[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]100. It’s a nice round number; however, in this case there is nothing nice about it. In both law enforcement and the fire service, this number represents a benchmark we...

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Are You Ready for an OSHA Visit?

Are You Ready for an OSHA Visit?

[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Opening the day’s mail, you come across a certified letter. As you scan the contents, your heart begins to beat a little faster and your mind races. OSHA has received a...

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Below 100: Much More Than a Number

Below 100: Much More Than a Number

[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]By now most of you are probably familiar with the Below 100 Project and its goal of reducing the number of police officer line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) to less than...

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Firefighter Heat Illness Prevention and the Incident Commander

Firefighter Heat Illness Prevention and the Incident Commander

Last year I moved my family to the Valley of the Sun in Phoenix. Let me tell you, it’s HOT here! As I write this, it is 106 degrees outside; with 22% humidity, it feels like 108. I am grateful to be sitting in an air-conditioned house, but I am thinking about our...

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