Comprehensive Recordkeeping Is Critical to Fire Department Training

This is the seventh tip from TargetSolutions' special report, "Eight Great Tips for Training Your Crew," a best practices guide. To view the entire report, please click here.

Are your fire department’s training records accurate? Are you sweating an upcoming ISO review, or some other audit, because you don’t trust the data you have on file? Chances are you need to examine your data business practices to ensure the processes for collecting, logging and reporting information are effective. To generate comprehensive reports, your process needs to be defined. If you want specific data, all participants in the collection and reporting of that data need to adhere to the same criteria, and all components need to be defined and coordinated. It’s important to establish best practices for data collection. You will need to organize, plan and execute the work to ensure good, reliable data is consistently available. The first step is to commit to gathering data properly. That commitment will lead to better reporting.  

"With TargetSolutions we're able to show auditors what we're doing. I can pull a report on anything within the system and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency. This is a very cost-effective program to get our staff a great deal of training and also meet training needs." Nate Renzella, Fire Inspector with Hendersonville Fire Department (Tenn.)