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St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 1 is a progressive fire department subscribing to the principles of servant-based leadership and employee inclusion. We focus that belief in training our leaders that they have two major internal customer responsibilities:
  1. Provide the safest environment possible while operating in a mission-based occupation that is exceptionally dangerous by its very nature.
  2. Promote a workplace that demands continuing education throughout the career of each member.
At the same time, we focus our external customer responsibilities on the following:
  1. Commit to the public only the safest, most effective, cost efficient emergency services possible.
  2. Maintain the highest level of honesty and integrity while being stewards of the public’s funds and trust.
Keeping in mind, these four fundamental prerequisites you will see how they serve as the genesis for each of our current initiatives.
 
Current Initiatives 
  1. Personnel Safety and Education:
    1. We believe that reducing on-the-job injuries is directly related to two major areas: physical fitness and improved training. As you might have noticed in our Wellness/Fitness Initiative addressed as a stand alone issue within this website, we place a very high value on regular exercise. Since the inception of this program, we have noted a decrease in job related injuries to such an extent that this year we were recognized as one of the top 70 places of employment in Louisiana by the Louisiana Worker’s Compensation Company (LWCC) out of 23,000 places of employment insured by LWCC.
    2. Our formal training programs have improved our ability to deliver the highest quality emergency services to our public. This year we implemented the Target Safety Program, our 20-week recruit academy is recognized as one of the most comprehensive and challenging in the state, the addition of our live fire burn tower has great enhanced our basic firefighting skills and our “Captain’s College” is making a profound difference in the leadership and supervisory skills of our new front line officers.
    3. We have adopted Promotional Standards and Qualifications that challenge members to acquire identified certifications and/or formal education for their next promotion. Department members are incentives based on attainment of specific degrees and certifications.
  2. External Customer Deliverables:
    1. The broadest initiative we have with respect to our external customers is the transition from a Basic Life Support (BLS) provider to an Advanced Life Support (ALS) provider. While we provide no transportation our goal is to have a Paramedic on each engine company to provide our customers with the highest Emergency Medical Services while awaiting transport.
  3. Accreditation:
    1. St. Tammany Fire District No. 1 is seeking to become the only accredited fire department in Louisiana. As we have challenged each member with improving their individual safety and growth, we are likewise challenging ourselves as an organization to achieve that “next level”. We have identified national accreditation as that “next level”. We are targeted to complete this comprehensive process by 2010.
While we have numerous other, less encompassing initiatives, these are the more global projects that are directly related to our philosophy of servant-based, principle-centered leadership.
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