BY ALAN BRUNACINI
In our last monthly adventure, we began a discussion about how our fitness for duty is a critical influence in how we deliver service, which is basically the reason we are in business. We have recently gone through an interesting period where the full range of our fit-for-duty resources has been reduced based on the recession shrinking our local budgets.
Fire chiefs on one end of the system are struggling to manage the strategic level of the reductions, and fire companies on the other end are also attempting to somehow protect Mrs. Smith with less overall task level harm prevention (i.e., fit for duty) resources. The most critical and expensive part of all those resources is the firefighters who respond to and show up at Mrs. Smith's.
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