No Time for Playing Cards: Higher Reliability Organizing for the Fire Service Ensuring its success requires a

Ensuring its success requires a knowledge of how it works and what precautions must be taken

exceeding the reasonable expectations of fire department stakeholders and preparing as a fire chief for professional

Types of PPE

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No Time for Playing Cards: Higher Reliability Organizing for the Fire Service Ensuring its success requires aWhy do we continue to see similar firefighter injuries and line of duty deaths (LODDs) repeated each year? We often respond with technical solutions, such as more SOGs, safety lists, and studying more strategies and tactics. But are there greater depths of technical knowledge in our profession that can make firefighting significantly safer? Does it also help to look at the human side of our profession? Other high risk, high consequence industries have