As fire departments increasingly focus on fire prevention and community risk reduction (CRR), several new challenges have emerged. In some cases, firefighters may resist or be apathetic to these tasks. In other cases, less obvious hurdles like hidden biases can cause departments to make missteps. Today on the podcast, a safety and wellness captain from Georgia joins us to discuss the small and big ways these factors can impact prevention work, and how departments can work to overcome them (2:45).

Then, on a new Code Corner, NFPA engineer Shawn Mahoney talks about the requirements for integrated system testing in the Life Safety Code· (41:44).

 

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Gary Menard’s book list:

• Unconscious Bias, Annie Burdick.
• The Heart is Noble, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
• Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine
• Blindspot, Mahzarin Banaji
• Sway, Ori Brafman
• Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph Hallinan
• A Mind of Its Own, Cordelia Fine
• Quiet, Susan Cain
• Sway, Pragya Agarwal (yes, a different sway!)
• The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias, Pamela Fuller, Mark Murphy, Anne Chow
• The Person You Mean to Be, Dolly Chugh
• Biased, Jennifer Eberhardt
• The Art of Active Allyship, Poornima Luthra
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Everyday Bias” Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgements in Our Daily Lives’ Howard J. Ross
• The Blindspots Between Us, Glen Tsipursky 
• What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, David DiSalvo
• You Are Now Less Dumb, David McRaney
• You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney
• How We Decide, Jonah Lehri