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Working Together to Promote
Firefighter Safety &
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Ken Willette
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Public Fire Protection Division
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What Do You Think NFPA Is?
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Where did NFPA come from?
Founded in Boston Ma.Original membership
Original mission
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Where is NFPA today?
Quincy Ma. 300 employees 75,000 plus members, 12,000 plus fire service 16 sections including
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When I Say, Do You Know the Standard?
Fire Apparatus
–1901 PPE
–1971 Professional Qualifications
–1001 Deployment and staffing
–1710
• Fire Investigation Haz Mat EMS Safety/Wellness
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•Fire Investigation921
•Haz Mat472
•EMS450
•Safety/Wellness1500/1582/1583
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How Did NFPA Do This?
Standards Developing Organization
ANSI Accredited Consensus process Open process Committees develop Standards Balanced membership
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How Do We Work Together?
Join a Technical Committee
Submit Comments
Attend Conferences
Use Standards in Safety Committee Work
Partner with Dept. Administration
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