Company Training

Company Training no matter if your career or volunteer it is a necessity in your job in saving lives, property and the environment.

Company training must be diversified, and relevant to your mission and needs.

In a career department, each shift should be a training day. Learn one thing or refresh up on one skill will enhance your skills and will improve crew proficiency.  In a career department each member should have a day that is scheduled so can they present a topic to rest of the crew. At first the members might not like standing up and presenting a topic to the rest of the crew. Though the more often it is conducted, the more members might buy in.

In a career fire department most of the members should have the basics needed to perform the mission. Nothing is worst than learning the same old basic stuff. At that time you should interject the basic information to what they already know and take that basic information and advance it. 

In a volunteer department, training should be conducted weekly or biweekly. Depending on your volunteer department you may spend more time fundraising than training and running calls combined. A training schedule should be established involving all of the line officers and experienced volunteers who want to present a topic.

Have a schedule of who will conduct the training and what training topics will be presented.  Volunteer training levels will be blended, some will have no training or experience,  some will have some training and experience and others will have a lot of training and experience.

The key thing in both departments is to make training relevant, exciting, so members can keep buying in.

Let's face it, the last thing we want to do is hurt ourselves, hurt our brother firefighters or hurt our department. Once we hop off the truck at someone's emergency we must not fall flat on our faces.  

Conducting company training  will improve your quality service your department provides to the community. Improving quality service will improve community support of your department.