FACILITY FIRE BRI FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES INS FIRE PROTECTION, DETECTION, AN
FIRE SERVICE HYDRAULICS AND WATER SUPPLY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TECHNICIAN PRINCIPLES OF PASSENGER VEHICLE EXTRICATION GROUND COVER FIRE FIGHTING FOR STRUCTURAL FIREFIGHTERS
In 2007, The International Fire Service Journal of Leadership and Management (IFSJLM) announced the creation of the Dr. John Granito Award for Excellence in Fire Leadership and Management Research. The award honors Dr. Granito, one of the premier fire and public safety researchers and consultants in the U.S. Dr. Granito was the first recipient of the award in 2008. Future recipients of the Dr. Granito Award present the keynote address at the next annual IFSJLM Research Symposium just prior to the start of the IFSTA Validation Conference. A list of Granito Award recipients can be found in Appendix E . In 2014, the IFSJLM also established the Legacy Award to recognize individuals who made key contributions to the development and continued production of the research journal. A list of Legacy Award recipients can be found in Appendix F . NOTE: All of these awards are represented by permanent plaques hanging in the lobby of the main FPP building on the Oklahoma State University campus.
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USFA and Other Externally-Funded Research Starting in the late 1990s, IFSTA/FPP became a greater part of the university’s research mission. IFSTA/ FPP was approached by the United States Fire Administration to assist with developing research reports on various fire service topics. The USFA would contract with IFSTA/FPP and provide the funding to complete the projects. For governmental contracting/funding reasons, the reports would need to be published under the IFSTA brand rather than the OSU-FPP brand. FPP Assistant Director Nancy Trench was the point of contact for these projects and she managed the business aspects of the projects. Associate Director Mike Wieder managed the report development efforts. All of the report content development work was subcontracted out to qualified subject-matter experts, in part, because FPP Editorial staff did not have the time to work on them. In the early days of these projects, FPP was required deliver print-ready final documents. This required final editing by FPP Editorial staff and FPP Graphics staff to do the final production. In recent years, FPP has only been required to send the files to the USFA and they would complete the layout and final production. There were a number of benefits to IFSTA/FPP for taking on these projects. Some of these included: • It provided a certain level of prestige for the IFSTA/FFP organization within our industry. • It increased the visibility of IFSTA/FPP to markets that otherwise may have not been familiar with us, including those beyond the fire service. • It provided content that could also be used in our publications before the report was released, if we needed it. This was because the information was considered government-domain. Competitors would not have access to the information until after the report was released to the public. • The grant money could be to offset the salaries of FPP staff who were working on the project. For example, if an employee was spending 25% of their time on the USFA project, that amount could be deducted from the grant. The same amount could then be used by FPP towards other salary needs for FPP operations. Some of these projects included the following: • Traffic Incident Management Systems (TIMS) Technical Research — Researching and developing technical guidance including training systems and programs for fire and emergency services in TIMS for enhanced compliance with the US DOT Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the National Incident Command System (NICS). • Emergency Vehicle Conspicuity Study — This study looked at the effectiveness of reflective markings marking used on all sides of emergency vehicles. It complimented other research performed for the USFA on effective emergency vehicle lighting.
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