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This Week: November 18-22, 2024
Crash Responder Safety Week (CRSW) is an opportunity to make a difference individually and jointly for roadway safety during traffic incidents by teaching each other and the motoring public about our common goal and responsibility for safe, quick clearance.
The goal of Crash Responder Awareness Week is to reach out to every emergency responder, every driver, and every passenger, to educate them in how to play their part in ensuring safe responses at roadway incident scenes. More details are available from the National Operations Center of Excellence.
The 2024 CRSW theme is “Responders Ahead! Reduce Your Speed As You Proceed.” The daily themes are:
- Monday 11/18: Responders Ahead! Reduce Your Speed as You Proceed
- Tuesday 11/19: Driver Education
- Wednesday 11/20: Responder Training
- Thursday 11/21: More Than a Crash
- Friday 11/22: Slow Down, Move Over
The CRSW Outreach Toolkit will help you with public education and social media messaging
A National Kickoff Webinar for the week is Monday, November 18 at 1PM ET. You can become a CRSW Ally in Action to showcase the steps your organization is taking to promote CRSW and improve the safety of responders and road users.
The Emergency Responder Safety Institute is an official partner and supporter of Crash Responder Safety Week.
ResponderSafety.com and The Responder Safety Learning Network have hundreds of resources to help you plan your Crash Responder Safety Week training to improve the safety of your personnel when responding to incidents on the roadway, including vehicle fires, crashes, medical emergencies, natural disasters, and large scale responses like mass casualties and violent incidents. Here are the main categories of resources available to you. All resources are free.
- The Responder Safety Learning Network has over 40 online training modules about every aspect of roadway incident response safety
- Awareness posters to promote key roadway incident response safety practices within the department:
- A distracted driving prevention poster for public education
- Roadway Safety Teaching Topic Packages for Instructors with full lesson plans, videos, and model SOPs on 10 critical topics for teaching roadway incident response safety
- Roadway Safety Shorts are quick, practical videos on recommended safety practices for crucial tasks at roadway incident scenes
- Written Resources on multiple topics related to roadway response safety
- Videos on roadway response procedure demonstrations, PSAs, and recommended practices
- Struck By Incidents articles, reports, and an incident location map
- Struck By Survivor Stories Video and In Our Boots PSAs respectively, from their words.
- Emergency Vehicles information including videos and white papers on high visibility markings and emergency lighting recommended practices
- High Visibility Apparel information on requirements and recommended practices
- Resources for PIOs and Public Educators (PSAs, media kits, media advisories, infographic, push, card, and more)
- Resources for departments serving rural roads
- Resources for EMS departments
If you need somewhere to start, ResponderSafety.com has created the following plan for training options during Crash Responder Safety Week.
“What should we train on?”
DONE.
Take Care. Be Careful. Pass It On.
BillyG
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