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A federal cancer benefit was just expanded for firefighters. Whether it covers industrial firefighters is being decided right now and there’s a brief window to influence the outcome. On December 19, 2025, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act became law. It expanded the federal Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) program to recognize occupational cancer as…
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That’s a hard thing to say, and I mean it in the most constructive way possible. Training officers work incredibly hard. The number of hours spent building slide decks, tracking compliance, chasing sign-in sheets, and trying to squeeze 40 hours of content into a department that only gives you 20 is genuinely exhausting. Nobody gets…
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NFPA 350 Answers What OSHA Doesn’t If you manage confined space entries at an industrial facility, you’ve read OSHA 1910.146. You know it requires a designated rescue service. You know that service has to be proficient, equipped, and capable of responding in a timely manner. But here’s the problem: OSHA never defines timely. The exact…
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The Batesville Fire Department (IN) is hosting an instructor in-service June 7th from 8am-12pm. This four hour session will cover a wide range of topics essential to fire service instructors and the students/firefighters they train. Chief Dan Sunderman of the Sharonville Fire Deparment (OH) and Deputy Chief Alex Zielinski of the Eli Lilly Fire Department…
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Micromanagement is one of the most common — and most damaging — leadership failures in the fire service. It destroys trust, slows crews down, erodes confidence, and quietly drives good firefighters out of the job. Yet most officers who micromanage don’t realize they’re doing it, and most organizations don’t recognize the systems that allow it…
