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. |
