View from the Street * Nov. 2013 *

2013 Virginia General Assembly * PASSED * SJ 277 National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management; Secretary of Public Safety to establish a Statewide Traffic Incident Management Committee to coordinate the adoption and implementation of the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management by highway and emergency response personnel in order to mitigate highway incidents and improve incident response in the Commonwealth.

Bill Full wordage    http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SJ277ER

The Secretary of Public Safety shall submit to the Division of Legislative Automated Systems an executive summary and report of her progress in meeting the requests of this resolution no later than the first day of the 2014 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SJ277

The Statewide TIM Committee meet in May drafted a Statewide Plan that was reviewed and adopted sent out to  First Responder/TIM groups and they have a  meeting on November 13 , 2013  – May TIM info    http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/OEMS/NewsFeatures/TIM/index.htm

In  Hampton Roads, Virginia  850  have recieved   SHRP 2 Training.  The region  has adopted a regional standard for Pre-Emption of Hampton Roads Traffic Signals and funding is in place .     

Serco Awarded New $355 Million Virginia Traffic Management Contract includes Statewide  TOC Operators and SSP.  http://www.serco-na.com/vdot/serco-vdot-team

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

The Business Case for Safety and Health https://www.osha.gov/dcsp/products/topics/businesscase/index.html

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

2013  Killed in the Line of Duty
Police Officers   89   http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2013
Fire Fighters      90    http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/ 
EMS                       22    http://www.nemsms.org/notices.htm
Towers                 22    http://www.internationaltowingmuseum.org/

Eric  Reddeck   HRFSOC@cox.net
NFFF  * Everyone Goes Home Advocate    http://www.everyonegoeshome.com