Tag Archives: safety

Getting Ready for Rehab If you’ve made the important decision to enter a residential rehabilitation center, there are doubtless many concerns and considerations weighing heavily on your mind, including how to plan for your time away from home, work, friends, and family.   Getting ready for a stay in a residential rehabilitation facility is much like preparing for any period ...

RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. Aware, Alert, Aggressive, Always: How To Do Your Job Effectively While Things Are Trying To Kill You Failure to recognize unsafe situations. Failure to prevent unsafe actions. Failure to deliver effective operations. These are the results of poor situational awareness in emergency responders of all levels. This program uses real-life case studies and in-class ...

As first responders, you all know first hand how many devastating and life changing accidents befall countless people, many of them children, every day.

This collection of resources uses a straight forward approach to show how you can use new information to give more options, not less.

Rom Duckworth speaks with Dave Statter about first due videos, the outsider perspective of the fire service, the echo chamber effect, the videos he won’t show, and the answer to the question “When Has THAT Ever Happened in the Fire Service?”

In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS advocate and Redding, CT Police Chief Doug Fuchs to discuss police, fire and EMS working together, local success and failures, how they’re representative of services across the country and how collaboration impacts safety and situational awareness.

EMS Roundtable A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast: Top 5 Challenges – A Fire Medic Perspective Podcast is RescueDigests’ weekly podcast featuring Rom Duckworth covering everything emergency services, from clinical topics, to leadership issues to why the rookie has to pay for lunch, all from a Fire Medic Perspective. . [powerpress] . Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF ...

Rom Duckworth sits down with Fire / EMS Educator and IAFF Rep Jerry Biggart to lay out the top 5 challenges facing us in 2013.

Rom Duckworth talks with Brian Lilley and John Borel about Field Training Programs Done Right.