FFCAM: Week 4
Personal Responsibility and Culture Change
Transforming the culture of the fire service can be challenging, time-consuming, and often met with resistance. Even when changes are aimed at improving the health and well-being of you and your brothers and sisters, they may not be easily embraced.
This week’s focus will be on empowering you to advocate for your health and safety throughout your career and into retirement, while also pushing for changes within your department to reduce the risk of occupational cancer.
Resources
Factsheets
The Importance of Exposure Reporting
Reduce your Exposure to Carcinogens
Post-Fire Suppression Interventions to Reduce Exposures
Modifiable Risk Factors
Cancer Screenings
SCBA Through Overhaul
Clean Cab Concept
Survivor Stories
Calls to Action
Personal
- Advocate for yourself and your health throughout your career and into retirement by reducing your exposures on the job where you can and adhering to annual medical examinations and recommended cancer screenings.
Organizational
- To affect culture change around occupational cancer prevention, there needs to be collaborative efforts between labor, management, and city or government leadership.
Best Practices to Reduce Cancer On Duty, Off Duty, and on the Fireground