Support Services - Risk Management

Our Risk Management Program goal is to minimize the risk of personal injury and property loss and damage through safety and prevention programs. 

This program can be broken down into two parts: Safety and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.

Safety Program
Our Safety Program is to maintain the overall safety and well being of personnel by assuring that safety meetings are conducted on a regular schedule, investigating all identified safety violations and provide feedback to all personnel, establish a departmental safety committee with at least one member from each shift, to develop a comprehensive safety and wellness program to reduce time loss due to injury, and to develop apparatus and equipment operation procedures to minimize risk of damage to equipment and injury.

The State of Washington has addressed fire fighter safety issues through the Department of Labor and Industries with the adoption and publication of the Washington Administrative Code 296-305, Safety Standards for Fire Fighters.

WAC 296-305 required all fire departments, paid, volunteer or a combination there of, to write individual operational guidelines that addressed issues relating to Fire Fighter Safety Equipment. Guidelines address such topics as: Incident Management, Respiratory Guidelines, Training, Personal Protective Equipment, Safety Meetings, Structural and Wildland Fire Fighting Equipment, Emergency Medical Training, Program Development and Responsibility, and Record Management.

The National Fire Protection Agency provide further guidelines for medical and physical requirements, and apparatus and equipment safety standards.

This program assists employees with dealing with the incidents that are emotionally disturbing to them. The program objective is to post information for personnel so they know the process of how to request a CISD, establish and maintain the contact list for different types of CISD, and to develop a Chaplaincy Program.