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Post by 921batt on May 15, 2006 11:05:40 GMT -5
After reading all the posts in the Box Alarm thread a key element was not being addressed.
ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!!
Who is accounting for all those men and women comming to the scene? Where is your documentation for manpower and just how do you determine who was actually there? I know where this is going to go with the going on radio responding deal that was thrashed like a dead horse in other threads. Let that go and get working on a viable soultion to unnecessary radio traffic. My opinion is that only apparatus enroute should use the radio with only a few higher Command exceptions.
We recently added a Command Adjunct whose primary duty is to do accountability at scenes and in the stations. Now I know this is apples and oranges here (paid/volunteer) but someone has to do it. God forbid someone gets hurt responding and there is no documentation or if conversely someone incurres an injury and states that they were at or responding to the scene while the injury happened at their home. See where this can go.
Document,document,document!!!!
Any ideas out there? Sign in boards at the station, time stamped phone messages left at firehouse or an additional line at the dispatch center for this. Lets talk about em!
Cover your posterior!
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GVEMS30
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Post by GVEMS30 on May 16, 2006 16:29:01 GMT -5
Good point, I respond from home as second due medic from time to time, but I go on the air to do it.
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Post by Medic13 on May 16, 2006 17:36:51 GMT -5
It's all just a dead horse. Many departments have already made steps for improvement, some will wake up and decide to make improvements, but you'll always have a handful that refuse to change bad habits, regardless of how it effects everyone else.
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Post by 24wacker1 on May 16, 2006 19:24:30 GMT -5
It's all just a dead horse. Many departments have already made steps for improvement, some will wake up and decide to make improvements, but you'll always have a handful that refuse to change bad habits, regardless of how it effects everyone else. Well said Focker, I very much agree!!
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