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
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