Episode 236: Episode 8-18 – Jack Sulivan – Responder Safety Institute

Our guest, Jack Sullivan is the Director of Training for the Responder Safety Institute and has been with us several times over the years. 

On this occasion Jack addresses the tragically high number of “Struck by,” incidents, where a firefighter, law enforcement officer, ambulance team, recovery (tow) operator, Road Ranger and even innocent good-Samaritans are injured or killed, most due to inattentive drivers, from people on bikes to large tractor trailers. We, who are First Responders much work to educate our members to always maintain, “Situational Awareness” and our heads on a “swivel” in our efforts to bring more safety to our jobs.

Jack also explains to us the heavy need for more TIM (Traffic Incident Management) Teams around the country. These teams review past response incidences and how they could have been handled and feed that info to the responder agencies. They also conduct training with various First Responder agencies to help their members learn how to be safer and how to include those findings with those involved. 

For more information, here are several links:

https://www.respondersafety.com/ - Main Website with news and resources and

https://learning.respondersafety.com/ - Responder Safety Learning Network

https://www.ReportStruckBy.com – For reporting struck by vehicle incidents involving emergency responders at incident scenes.

https://www.enddd.org/ - End Distracted Driving resources

Jack Sullivan CSP

Dir. Of Training, Emergency Responder Safety Institute
 www.ResponderSafety.com 

Cell: 804-514-3766

[email protected]

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