By: The Unwired Medic
If you are in any form of public safety and you don't receive the EMR-ISAC bulletins by e-mail, you should change that. What they say definitely can affect your effectiveness and awareness on the job. It doesn't matter if you're a manager or supervisor, a frontline field grunt, a supply agent, an IT geek, a wrench turner, a helo jockey, a dispatcher, or fulfill any other position that helps the wheels of public safety turn. You can't do your job effectively if you are uninformed. Many a service I have been employed with that didn't see it this way, thinking that only the managers needed to be in the know and they should deign to disseminate information to the subordinate when and if they saw fit... and maybe once upon a time that could be considered true, but today is no longer that day.
You are on the frontlines of our nation's protection, whether you sit in the rig or not. All of public safety needs to be aware of the latest trends and threats. The EMR-ISAC (Emergency Management and Response - Information Sharing and Analysis Center) publishes at least weekly, a summary of things considered to be critical to the continued operations of our nation's public safety. From their newsletters and bulletins, you will glean awesome free training resources to help you cope with what you will really be able to expect to encounter in the world, awareness of public safety threats, cyber-attacks on government and private healthcare and infrastructure, prevalent viruses, CBRNE-WMD threats, and much more.
I have been receiving their bulletins for about 5 years now, and I'd say no less than one per month has been personally quite relevant, and I am better prepared to deal with the streets, or provide new assets to my students and interns as a result of their info. When an issue is particularly critical, they will deliver a special bulletin, and the source of delivery is the US Government, so there is no spam or advertising.
Surely everyone that reads this has, at some point, went to a graveyard and looked down on a tombstone and read the name, birthday and the day the person passed away. For most people, their tombstone is elaborate and with different sayings, designs and some even photos of the person six foot below, but very few people notice the most important thing on the tombstone. Its more than likely the smallest thing on the tombstone, its straight and to the point. It has no design. Its on every single tombstone probably ever created and yet rarely considered important at all, yet it tells us everything about who we ever were. It's the dash!
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