Group A Workshops will be offered twice on Tuesday. Group B Workshops will be offered twice on Wednesday. Each participant will be able to attend two workshops from each group.

At the symposium you will be provided name badges that will include your chosen workshops.  These credentials will be necessary to attend these workshop sessions.

   A-1. I Am Alive:  New IAFF Wellness Initiatives  

Updates addressing the 3^rd Edition IAFF/IAFC Fire Service Joint-Labor Management Wellness-Fitness Initiative including new video presentations and sections on cost justification and implementation. 

   A-2. Behavioral Health:  Best Practices  

Explores why the traditional Critical Incident Stress Management model fails to prepare fire departments for managing behavioral health issues?  This workshop focuses on lessons learned from major incidents, including 9/11, Katrina/Rita/Wilma and Charleston, SC.  It will also offer tools for handling day-to-day behavioral health issues.

   A-3. The New CPAT:  Orientation, Mentoring and Practice  

Updates addressing the 2^nd Edition Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) including the new EEOC requirements for all license holders. Best practice mentoring programs show how to reduce adverse impact for your department. Also, the new CPAT system data collection and administration software requirements will be reviewed. 

   A-4. Rehabilitation Through Functional Fitness Assessments  

Injuries cost the fire service billions of dollars annually.  Learn about the various tools that can be used to ensure the proper level of rehabilitation and training, and as a screening assessment to return to work.

   A-5. New Visions for the Future of the Fire Service:  Helping Fire Departments Assess and Respond to Risks    

Learn how to develop tools to help local fire departments better assess the risks in their local communities, plan to respond to them more effectively and efficiently, and measure their effectiveness and safety in responding to and handling fire service events.

   A-6. Protect Your Members:  Navigating Presumptive Disability Laws  

Scientific evidence has demonstrated that fire fighters and emergency medical responders have an increased risk for heart disease, lung disease, certain cancers, and infectious diseases. Presumptive disability laws address worker’s compensation and retirement disability benefits including presumptive legislation.  This workshop provides the resources to navigate these laws in order to best represent your members.

   B-1. Fire Apparatus Safety  

The prevention of injuries and deaths from vehicle-related incidents is completely within our control, and we must aggressively seek to eliminate these hazards immediately.  In this workshop you will hear about outreach programs from the IAFF on Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiatives designed to stop the second-leading cause of fire fighter fatalities. 

   B-2. Operating Safely: Protective Clothing and Equipment Technology    

An examination of current issues surrounding fire fighter personal protective technologies, including PPE standards, federal funding requirements, new research, product demonstrations and purchasing strategies to obtain the best gear for your members.

   B-3. Leadership for Safety   

Year after year statistics remain unchanged; approximately 100 fire fighter line-of-duty deaths and more than 80,000 injuries occur. This workshop will focus on defining strategies fire fighters can employ to ensure their own safety -- in the fire station, en route to/from, and at emergencies -- as well as instructional approaches for reducing fire fighter deaths and injuries. 

   B-4. Fire Service Communications:  Why They Are Not Working    

Mayday -- Mayday -- Mayday.  Fire service communication systems are in distress, but is anyone listing?  Insanity is defined by doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.  Find out why communication system failures continue to contribute to line-of-duty deaths and why we must not focus entirely on "inter-operability" at the expense of "intra-operability".

   B-5. Fire Fighter Self-Survival:  Preparing Before the Alarm    

This new training program is currently being developed by the IAFF and will provide tools for training fire fighters to perform potentially life-saving actions if they become lost, disoriented, injured, low on air, or trapped. 

   B-6. Health, Safety and Medical:  Data Collection and Cancer Registry  
 
This workshop will discuss the WFI Database to track fire fighters with heart disease, lung disease, infectious disease and cancer to support preventative programs, including the WFI and fire fighter occupational illness benefits.

*Schedule is subject to change due to speaker availability and scheduling conflict.

Attention Certified Peer Fitness Trainers:  IAFF/IAFC/ACE certified PFTs are eligible to earn CECs for attending the Redmond Symposium.  There are also six workshops that PFTs can take to earn additional CECs.  Contact the IAFF for more information.