1 / 13

Working Together to Promote Firefighter Safety & Wellness

&. Working Together to Promote Firefighter Safety & Wellness. Ken Willette Manager Public Fire Protection Division. What Do You Think NFPA Is?. Where did NFPA come from?. Founded in Boston Ma. Original membership Original mission. Where is NFPA today?. Quincy Ma. 300 employees

cleveland-orlando
Download Presentation

Working Together to Promote Firefighter Safety & Wellness

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. & Working Together to Promote Firefighter Safety & Wellness

  2. Ken Willette Manager Public Fire Protection Division

  3. What Do You Think NFPA Is?

  4. Where did NFPA come from? • Founded in Boston Ma. • Original membership • Original mission

  5. Where is NFPA today? • Quincy Ma. • 300 employees • 75,000 plus members, 12,000 plus fire service • 16 sections including

  6. When I Say, Do You Know the Standard? • Fire Apparatus • 1901 • PPE • 1971 • Professional Qualifications • 1001 • Deployment and staffing • 1710 • Fire Investigation • Haz Mat • EMS • Safety/Wellness

  7. Fire Investigation • 921 • Haz Mat • 472 • EMS • 450 • Safety/Wellness • 1500/1582/1583

  8. How Did NFPA Do This? • Standards Developing Organization • ANSI Accredited • Consensus process • Open process • Committees develop Standards • Balanced membership

  9. How Do We Work Together? • Join a Technical Committee • Submit Comments • Attend Conferences • Use Standards in Safety Committee Work • Partner with Dept. Administration

  10. NFPA.ORG

  11. EVSAFETYTRAINING.ORG

  12. FIRE SERVICE TODAY BLOG

  13. Thank You! Ken Willette 617-984-7299 kwillette@nfpa.org

More Related