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How Recessions Impact Fire Departments and Search & Rescue in the US – Part 1

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Leadership, Professional Standards, Safe Practices, Search and Rescue Training

When economic downturns hit the United States, it can have far-reaching consequences on how public safety services, such as fire departments and search and rescue, are able to continue operating. While many state and local budgets attempt to protect these essential services from budget cuts during times of recession, there can often be reduced funding …

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The Compound Effects: The GAP and The GAIN

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Leadership, Safe Practices, Team Competencies

“Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism.” -Ness Carey, British Biologist Stress can manifest in several ways, from physical signs like headaches and fatigue to emotional symptoms such as irritability and anxiety. Living within The GAP is no exception; it demands that you push yourself beyond your comfort zone – …

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A Guide to Online Training for Fire Departments, Technical Rope Rescue and Search & Rescue Teams – How Much Money You Can Save in a Year?

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Personal Competencies, Safe Practices, Team Competencies

As fire departments, technical rope rescue and search & rescue teams are increasingly turning to online training for their continuing education needs, it is important to understand the potential savings that can be achieved. Training online can save an organization significant amounts of money in terms of travel costs, instructor fees and administrative costs associated …

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6 Filtering Questions which will act as your personal success criteria: Greater than Gold!

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Leadership, Safe Practices, Team Competencies

From Last Week Let’s clear one thing up first before moving on… Yes, there are missions and objectives that are binary – Think military! There are systems that must be developed and built in sequence in order to function – Think engineering! There are many other examples… However, these are intrinsically separate from that of …

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Self Determination is Success From Your Perspective… We Need To Be Rescued!

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Safe Practices

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” – Steve Jobs Let’s clear one thing up first before moving on… Yes, there are missions and objectives that are binary – Think military! There are systems that must be developed and built in sequence in order to function – Think …

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A Disciplined Life Part 1: A 4 Burners Theory Will Help You Get More Done With Less

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Leadership, Safe Practices

This is a multi-part Series on Discipline and Accountability As mentioned, this is a multi-part series focusing on “discipline and accountability”. This will be a tough “row to hoe”. Why? Comparing business (private sector) to public sector (government) isn’t really done much. Honestly, most of the direct comparisons are done within the scope of “the …

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ROPE RESCUE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT STANDARDS COMBINED – NFPA 2500

By Lance Piatt / Blog, PMI, Safe Practices / 141 Comments

The following article is from Loui McCurley, CEO of Pigeon Mountain Industries. If you are an Emergency Services Responder – especially if you are affiliated with the fire service – here’s a little something you might be interested in knowing about. Actually, it’s more than a “little” thing, its more like 237 pages worth of …

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ANSI Z459.1 ROPE ACCESS AND TWO CONNECTIONS TO A SINGLE POINT

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Fall Safety, General Rigging, Rope Access and Working At Height, Safe Practices / 34 Comments

The following is from Loui McCurley/PMI Rope One of the MYTHS being generated about the new ANSI Z459.1 standard that was recently published as part of the ANSI Z359 Fall Protection Code is that this standard has introduced a prohibition on attaching TWO DESCENDERS to a SINGLE CONNECTION POINT on your harness. Before addressing that …

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What’s the #1 leadership and team building mistake rope rescue technician’s make?

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, Horizontal Rigging, Leadership, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Professional Standards, Safe Practices, Team Competencies, Technical Learning, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 229 Comments

The year was 2003… almost 5 years post my bellwether event in Sedona. These “leaders” had shown me not just an existence of something new, but of a direction of a trend of things to come. During these years, I had taken other courses and had become much more familiar with “the vertical terrain”. Mind …

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What would you say to a nervous rope rescue technician about getting started with leadership and team building?

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Elevated Anchor Systems, Horizontal Rigging, How-To Concepts, Offset Track Line, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Safe Practices, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 4 Comments

I found myself in a very compromising predicament. I had been running my gear company for less than a year and had been in search and rescue or the better part of 2 years and felt comfortable with what I had understood rope rescue to be. Fast forward a bit… I am standing on Bell …

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