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CDC Reduces Quarantine and Begins Planning for Autumn - Implications for Fire Chiefs
August 15, 2022
CDC is streamlining existing COVID guidance to reduce the impact of the virus on schools, employment, and the health system.
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Enhancing Human Capital: Harassment in Our Workplace
January 15, 2019
Sexual harassment, one type of abuse, is a prominent and prevalent topic these days, but on-the-job abuse includes all types of bullying and discrimination.
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Are You Using Your Equity Goggles?
January 4, 2019
At a public-education event, a young Asian boy said to me, “Wow, I didn’t know you could be a firefighter; could I be a firefighter too?” I'll never forget his words; this was the first time he had seen a firefighter who looked like him.
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Executive Officer Leadership: Are We Killing Our Own Diversity?
November 15, 2018
Every fire department has their notable firsts. Firsts are important to its history. What are your department’s firsts in terms of diversity and inclusion?
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I Stands for Inclusion
November 2, 2018
Diversity is about all of us in the fire service – it is who an organization is as well as who those in it are. But is the term becoming just an empty concept?
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Statement: IAFC Board of Directors
August 6, 2018
To allow discrimination or unequal treatment breaks down our abilities to work together in delivering service to the communities we serve.
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Human Relations: Mutual Respect Starts with a Conversation
May 14, 2018
I often ask, “Why can’t everyone just get along?” Is inappropriate behavior and comments by firefighters a product of cultural, gender or social differences, or is it just that someone is being an insensitive and unprofessional jerk?
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Safety and Health: Leadership and the Mob
January 2018
A group targets an individual with character assassination, humiliation, blame and criticism. They question the target’s knowledge, skill and ability. This is mobbing, AKA group bullying.
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Allow Intolerance or Affronts to Human Dignity? #NotOnMyWatch
October 25, 2017
It is imperative that firefighters take time to embrace the Human Dignity Statement developed and approved by the IAFC Board of Directors as a testament to how firefighters should treat each other.
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Emotional Intelligence, or Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
October 16, 2017
Traditionally, intellectual capacity has been seen as a primary indicator of one’s ability to succeed. Emotional intelligence is now also considered a crucial element in individual and professional success.
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Women Fire Chiefs Council Supports Women Leaders
September 26, 2017
I attended FRI this year as I had before and looked forward to interesting ideas to implement in my department. But I’ll admit, each year I felt like the only woman chief present. This year marked a dramatic change in my outlook.
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IAFC President Chief Donna Black on Lithium-Ion and Energy Storage Systems
December 2, 2022
Release of new resource page dedicated to lithium-ion batteries preparedness.
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IAFC’s Fire Service Executive Development Institute Available for 11th Year
November 18, 2022
UPDATE: The 2023 FSEDI application period is closed. Applicants will be notified in the near future.
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NVFC, VCOS, ISFSI Release Operational Training Guide for Fire Departments
November 15, 2022
A training program that meets the needs of the community and the individual firefighter with safety
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