“Normalization of Deviance” or National Best Safety Practices, which Safety path is your agency on!
“Normalization of deviance” describes a gradual shift in thought in which nonstandard or unacceptable behavior and standards become acceptable. People and organizations generally do not tolerate immediate, large shifts in behaviors – it would be obvious and seem ridiculous. However, we accept and barely notice incremental changes over long periods of time.
One graphic example of this concept was…the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Accident investigators identified that the temperature on the morning of the launch was far below the known safe limit. The O-rings that failed and caused the explosion were designed to function at a temperature no lower than 59 degrees. However, over time, NASA had launched the shuttle successfully at progressively lower temperatures until eventually on the morning of the Challenger launch, the temperature on the launch pad was 29 degrees.
Colonel Mike Mullane, Keynote speech IAFF Redmond Symposium Oct. 21-25, 2007
Day 1 19th Symposium held October 21-25, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.
National Best Safety Practices
– TIM Network http://timnetwork.org/
– FHWA Traffic Incident Management http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/about/tim.htm
– Responder Safety Learning Network http://learning.respondersafety.com/
– Fire Learning Network http://www.fireherolearningnetwork.com/
– IACP * Officer Safety http://www.theiacp.org/CenterforOfficerSafetyandWellness
– Towing and Recovery Association of America http://www.towserver.net/
– Safe Highways http://www.safehighways.org/
– TIM NETWORK Facebook National Traffic Incident Management Coalition
– IAFF Health, Safety, Medicine http://www.iaff.org/hs/index.htm
* Virginia’s Slow Down/Move Law * 46.2-921.1
2014 Killed in the Line of Duty
Police Officers 9 http://www.odmp.org/search/year/2014?ref=sidebar
Fire Fighters 11 http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
EMS ? http://www.nemsms.org/notices.htm
Towers ? http://www.internationaltowingmuseum.org/
Eric Reddeck HRFSOC@cox.net
NFFF * Everyone Goes Home Advocate http://www.everyonegoeshome.com
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