View from the Street * Dec 2013

As the youngest Baby Boomer (1946-1964) turns 50 in 2014 and moves on into retirement. Safety groups are looking for new leaders in Generation X (1965-1979) and the Millennials (1980-2000) to step up in the leadership role so Everyone Goes Home.

Some of the SAFETY programs that have been started are :

1 – FHWA Public Roads: Kimberly C. Vásconez is team leader of Office of Operations

Training Millions of Traffic Incident Management Responders

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/13novdec2013/03.cfm

2 – Virginia Secretary of Public Safety report to Virginia General Assembly

2014	(Pending) Report on the progress of establishing a Statewide Traffic Incident Management Committee to coordinate the adoption and implementation of the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management.

3 – Responder Safety Learning Network http://learning.respondersafety.com/

4 – Fire Learning Network http://www.fireherolearningnetwork.com/

5 – IACP * Center for Officer Safety and Wellness

http://www.theiacp.org/About/CenterforOfficerSafetyandWellness/tabid/1097/Default.aspx

6 – FHWA Traffic Incident Management http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/about/tim.htm

7 – Towing and Recovery Association of America http://www.towserver.net/

8 – Safe Highways http://www.safehighways.org/

9 – TIM Network http://timnetwork.org/

10 – TIM NETWORK Facebook National Traffic Incident Management Coalition

This is a good video on 2/10 Mile Markers improving Response and Safety

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fZfvebt-ndA

2013 Killed in the Line of Duty
Police Officers    92   http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2013
Fire Fighters      92    http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
EMS                       22    http://www.nemsms.org/notices.htm
Towers                 23    http://www.internationaltowingmuseum.org/