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Fire Service Leadership: The Law and Legal Issues
Best Practices for the Modern FIre Department
Length of Seminar:
2 Days
Instructo: Curt Varone
Course Overview:
Fire service leaders face a myriad of challenges in their daily tasks. The very threat of legal action by employees, employee representatives, or the public creates an obstacle to effecting needed organizational change. These obstacles can be anticipated and overcome through a solid understanding of the law, together with proven strategies to navigate challenging legal waters.
This program looks at the law and legal issues that impact the fire service, from liability concerns over operational mistakes to personnel matters such as sexual harassment and race discrimination. It covers the common mistakes made by fire departments, and provides solid advice for progressive leaders who want to move their organizations forward despite the obstacles. Don’t let legal concerns stand in the way of success.
Objectives:
Fire and emergency services organizations stand on the front lines of society’s battle with natural and manmade disasters. The battle is complicated by an ever changing legal landscape that impacts today’s emergency organizations to an unprecedented degree. As if the challenges of the job and the complexity of the laws were not enough to contend with, law suits seem to arise whenever employee, customer, or public expectations are not met.
Fire Service Leadership: the Law and Legal Issues provides an overview of the laws and regulations that impact the fire and emergency services, together with effective strategies for exercising leadership. Some of the hottest, most pressing legal topics confronting the fire service will be addressed, including privacy issues associated with computers, emails, text messaging, and electronic workplace monitoring; personal cellphone usage while on duty; digital imagery and social networking; sexual harassment; race discrimination; and the impact of tattoos and body piercings on grooming policies.
Learn about:
- The 5 Common Mistakes that Fire Department Make that lead to lawsuits, and what you can do to address each one!
- 5 Steps to Minimize Civil Liability
- The 4 Policies that All Fire Departments Need (but probably don’t have)
- 4 Effective Strategies for Dealing with Sexual Harassment
- A Tabletop Exercise for use in your department that will enhance personnel safety and ensure you are prepared for a lawsuit
This program is directed at chief officers, company officers, senior fire service leaders, attorneys, and personnel managers responsible for the operations of fire departments, emergency medical services providers, state and regional fire academies, search and rescue teams, and similar organizations that provide emergency services to the public.
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