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Lexipol - 5 Policy "Hot Spots" For Fire Departments

Essential Policies for Limiting Your Risk

From the first day at the firehouse, firefighters are barraged with a host of standard operating guidelines, standard operating procedures, acronyms that correspond to specific actions at fire and emergency scenes, paperwork that must be completed at medical calls and of course, the fire department traditions that so often govern how things are done.

Curiously, many departments that do well in documenting and training on procedures lack comprehensive policies that govern department operations from a strategic level. While policy is important across all operations, there are specific areas where a lack of sound policy leaves the department—and its leadership— especially vulnerable. Think of them as policy “hot spots”—if you don’t extinguish them, they can develop into burning issues.

 Click here to read the "5 Policy Hot Spots for Fire Departments" white paper from Lexipol. 

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