June 20-26, 2010
New Resources for Safety Week
This year, we have developed a Wellness-Fitness PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the health and wellness-related Safety Week topics and can be further customized by you to meet your department’s needs. Be sure to review the comments in the notes section under each slide – speaking points and data sources are included there.
Planning page: the press release template (with instructions), the Safety Week FAQs and the sample activity schedule are now available.
Theme: Fit for Duty
While departments are encouraged to identify activities tailored to their specific community, recommended areas of concentration include:
- General Health and Wellness
- Food and Nutrition
- Fitness
- Stress Management
- Smoking and Smokeless-Tobacco Cessation
- Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Infectious Diseases
- Suicide Prevention
Read the March 11 theme announcement.
What is Safety, Health and Survival Week?
Safety, Health and Survival Week (Safety Week) is a collaborative program sponsored by the IAFC and the IAFF, coordinated by the IAFC Safety, Health and Survival Section and the IAFF Division of Occupational Health, Safety and Medicine, in partnership with more than 20 national fire service organizations.
Fire departments are encouraged to suspend all non-emergency activity during Safety Week and instead focus entirely on safety, health and wellness-related training and education until all shifts and personnel have taken part. An entire week is provided to ensure each shift and duty crew can spend one day focusing on these critical issues. |
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Coordinated by IAFC's Safety, Health and Survival Section and IAFF's Division of Occupational Health, Safety and Medicine.
In partnership with more than 20 national fire service organizations. |
