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Article Title: Will Your Training Report Help or Hurt You while in Conversation with an Attorney?
This article addresses the issues of training and report take, also known as documentation of record keeping. Every firefighter personnel who undergoes training is bound to take care of his or her report. Besides, he is supposed to ensure that the report is detailed for the training you undertook. In this article, the author focuses on the quality of the report or documentation. Its importance is recognized when you receive a call from the OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administrations as well as the attorney in the circumstance where one of the students has got an injury (John, Buckman, 2020).
Fire instructors, supervisors, and students need to embrace various ways they can document their information for future reference. The most effective way that is encouraged is the use of photographs. The current world comprises of advanced technological systems that enable easy storage and retrieval of data. The use of photographs of hands is an effective strategy. Supervisor or instructors and students are encouraged to take photography of hands. However, they should only this method as a way to supplement their paperwork report form or their electronic documentation system.
Besides, this article from the fire engineering magazine identifies various ways through which documentation proves to be a very important thing in training and record-keeping in the fire management aspect. Through documentation, it is easy to identify the daily practical training activities that were carried out. In most cases, it is common for most instructors to develop assumptions on small or pretty activities carried out in training and perceive them as basics. However, without documentation of such training activities, there is no evidence to prove whether the activities you carried out in training were standard or not (John, Buckman, 2020).
Accidents, crisis, or disasters can happen to anyone regardless of whether you are some crisis intervention personnel. Whenever a student I injured in training for firefighting responses and management, as an instructor, you are called upon to provide a deposition. This refers to a sworn oral state in a court proceeding. Depositions, which can also be termed as testimonies, refer to the information given by the witness to the training you were undertaking to shows alignment between what you did in training and documentation do align (John, Buckman, 2020). Through deposition, we tend to try to recognize the information provide by a witness and preserve the information for use in court proceedings. The main objective here is to allow for a free flow of facts and in a fair manner for the specified critical situation.
This article also highlights the standards used in this aspect of fire emergency response training. The standard applicable in this case for fire service is the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard. However, it is also recommended to use some of the NFPA standards which have been incorporated legally in the legislation system. This is justified to be used in the delivery of training services as an instructor.
Another importance of documentation of the instructor’s works is the need to use for effective communication among each other in the service systems as well as interaction with other disciplines. The truth is that documentation is perceived to be a burdening activity to undertake or a wastage of time. Despite that, this article suggests, you should always strive to ensure the quality of your training report documentation is maintained. Instructors and students need to realize that it is an integral aspect of their work on training servicemen and women as well as important in other fire service settings (John, Buckman, 2020). For quality documentation, the fire service management should provide the team with this responsibility enough time and resources to come up with a quality documented report.
Documentation is also important as it provides the foundation for demonstration and understanding of the contributing factors given out by bay supervisors and training instructors towards their students in training. Apart from such importance of documentation, it also enables several departments within the fire system to access the outcomes that may enhance the viability as well as the effectiveness of training.
Some principles guide the documentation of training Reports. How people are sharing information in public is changing very fast and in a new way. Several principles ensure such processes are effective and reinforced since it deals with issues of public safety. Such principles include the adherence to the protection of confidentiality, ensuring there is accuracy, the security of training report documentation, adherence to legislation regarding documentation of public reports, guidelines, and mandates. This should remain paramount regardless of what type of technological platform is in place.
In conclusion, there are several reasons as to why instructors of students in training need to document their world. Such reasons include keeping them for communication with internal organizational units, providing information to students while in training for their professional development records. However, this article encourages all people involved in the fire service documentation. This is possible in several key ways. Your training records need to be accurate, timely, contemporaneous, concise, thorough, organized as well as strong in terms of confidentiality. We need to understand that information is conveyed in various ways; verbally, written form, and electronic form.
References
John M. Buckman III (2020). Will your Training Report Help Your or Hurt You when talking to an Attorney? https://www.fireengineering.com/2020/05/01/487511/will-your-training-report-help-you-or-hurt-you-when-talking-to-an-attorney/