The Premiere Conference on Firefighter/Responder Safety sponsored by the Fire Department Safety Officers Association will be held September 21-25, 2009 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Safety saves your department not only lives, but less accidents and less injuries, will save your department money. Can you afford NOT to attend?
FDSOA is dedicated to the issues that affect a Safety Officer’s role in protecting and promoting the safety and health responsibilities of their departments, communities and themselves. Join safety officers from across North America for a week full of educational programs, awareness training, and networking with peers.
Participate in dynamic seminars on subjects that range from Training and Implementing Rapid Intervention Teams on the Fireground to Building Construction: Occupancy Specific Concerns. Speakers include well-known industry leaders such as Chief Dennis Rubin, District of Columbia Fire & EMS Department; Chief John Buckman, German Township, IN, Volunteer Fire Department, Mike Dubron, President/Founder of the Firefighter Cancer Support Group and Chief Brian Crawford, Shreveport, LA, Fire Department to name but a few.
Other Safety Forum highlights include:
• Guilty or Not Guilty - Mock Trial (with a real judge and lawyers)
• Lighter by the Minute - The Truss Systems Above & Below
• Do We Have To Be Safe? We Are Just Volunteers
• Lemons to Lemonade: A Leadership Journey
One attendee after last year’s event wrote, “I would like to thank you all for the great Safety Forum in Orlando in 2008!! You all put a lot into it and I got a lot out of it! I became a Safety/Special Operations Lieutenant in Jan of 2008. I have a real passion for safety and your forum solidified it!” For those interested in becoming certified there is the opportunity to take either the 16-hour Incident Safety Officer Academy or the 16-hour Health & Safety Officer Academy.
Make safety a priority in your department this year with the only conference in our industry dedicated solely to Firefighter/Responder Safety. For more information go to www.FDSOA.org.