COMPANY INSPECTION PROGRAM TRAINING DVD

摘要

Great projects often start from whims. Although some are products of a grand plan that may have been brewing for a long time, some are products of a flash of inspiration. In the Honolulu (HI) Fire Department (HFD), I had the idea to streamline the mundane and personnel-intensive training for the Fire Prevention Bureau's (FPB) Company Inspection Program. For this mandatory training, the inspection manual was being updated and all firefighters needed to be versed in the new procedures. But the cumbersome traditional training methodology needed a creative solution. Previously, training consisted of sending a trainer from the FPB to the fire stations with hefty manuals in hand. Sessions were often interrupted when the firefighters were called out to alarms, leaving the trainer to wait for their return. If the wait was too long, he would have to leave and return on another day. This was not an efficient way to conduct training.