Volunteer Fire Service Culture: Essential Strategies for Success

Creating a fire department culture that emphasizes the health and safety of personnel is critical to protecting our nation’s responders and reducing deaths and injuries. The NVFC textbook Volunteer Fire Service Culture: Essential Strategies for Success is designed to train department members and leaders about key issues relating to health and safety and how to embrace healthy and safe practices in all areas of department operations and culture.

Topic areas covered in the textbook include:

• Inside the volunteer mind
• Leadership
• Personal accountability and responsibility
• Community risk reduction
• Health and wellness
• Response, roadway, and incident scene safety
• Recruitment and retention
• Sample documents

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