If subcultures did not exist we could not rely on our fellow personnel. People categorize themselves on a daily basis and are just not aware that they just put a label on themselves. The responses police officers adhere to daily many are without cause such as lesbians, bikers, gothic culture, and skin heads to name a few (Subculture List, 2012). Subcultures exist in almost all places schools, work environments and public places. Police officers must always prepare themselves for the worst case scenario in an emergency call.
Extinguishing a fire is one of the most important duty which firefighters have to do in a fire incident. In the past, it was more difficult for fire fighters to extinguish an incident location specially high buildings because their focus is divided on different missions like evacuating the building from people, extinguishing a fire, trying to extinguishing the fire in less time, and saving life and properties. Thus, they were spending more time in doing different duties before reaching their basic duty that is extinguishing the fire. Nowadays, there are different ways that are applied in a building in cases of spreading a fire which facilitate firefighters duties and make the extinguishing process more easy than before. Two of these helpful ways are the sprinkler system and the fire exit doors.
Job stress is another issue that the police deal with every day on the job and it can affect the way they treat people they encounter while on the job and also affect the police officer’s health. So now some of the police departments have stress prevention programs in place to help with stress
Resilience: The Fire Within “I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” -Joshua Graham. Life is full of obstacles, some better than others and the ability to overcome a traumatic and abusive event in one’s life is defined as resilience. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; to reflect toughness after an unpleasant life changing events. Colson Whitehead author of The Underground Railroad shows resilience through characters such as Cora, Mabel, and Caesar. All characters encountered cruel and horrific events throughout their lives and would overcome them, allowing themselves to seek opportunities in life.
You can’t go to a fire scene and attack a raging house fire if your heart isn’t into it, and you can’t go to a vehicle accident and expect to save someone’s life if you don’t feel it 100% in your bones. You need the ability to concentrate solely on the task at hand in order to help preserve life and property Becoming a firefighter isn’t easy. It’s a tough, grueling process that requires dedication and devotion that does not fade or “get old” with time. The training is endless, the courses required become more and more detailed and cumbersome with each passing year, requiring even seasoned firefighters to update and keep their own training current. New tools, rules, codes, and means of fighting fires, rescuing victims from vehicle accidents, and performing hazardous materials response are printed all the time.
Stress Management in Law Enforcement “Best ways for law enforcement officers to reduce stress levels and why this works for you” Being a Law Enforcement officer in itself is a very stressful job. You work long and odd hours, you do not get much time to yourself or with your family and you are constantly putting yourself in harms way to protect people you do not know on a personal level. According to our text book everyone responds differently to stress. Essorment.com states that all the following will lead to different reactions; the law enforcement officers level of experience, years of being in the service and the intensity if the stressful event. They give five very good strategies a law enforcement officer can use to help cope with a stressful event or situation.
These are persons who have had experience on the front line as firefighters. It is a common and universally accepted adage that: “experience makes the best teacher”. With that being said just think for a moment how knowledge of a real working fire can contribute to the development of a seasoned and skilled fire investigator. In my short tenure as a firefighter I have been in several fires already. As a result of that, especially during overhaul at fires, I have acquired so much knowledge of cause and effect relationships of fire as it pertains to fire behavior.
They too impact greatly on the whole community and even their jobs are life-threatening at times (such as a miner; the methane levels in the mines make it a hazardous environment for miners as even a spark from their tools could light a spark and the whole mine would catch fire, harming everyone). They too could have just done something safer, but they still end up doing such a job, and this is a form of altruism even though the person doesn’t think about helping others all the time. But then again, the society is in a better shape as such jobs keep the city at peace, and there is happiness. Wonder why? It’s because there is the absence of sadness.
We have chosen this area of study because we have come to realise that hypertension is a major health dilemma in today’s stressful, career driven society. People do not take time out of their busy schedules to take care of their health. They never stop to ask why they are getting sick so often. What is contribution to them getting sick, and what can be done to prevent them from getting sick or prevent their condition from worsening. This is what we are trying to accomplish in with this study.
For example, some people that have public work may always have arguments with citizens or colleagues without a clear reason. Besides, sometimes authorities do not face the problems or necessities some workers have. - GOOD To round off, violence in the workplace is a problem that every day develops without fear every day. The society the community live in and the dissatisfaction some people may have with their job are some factors involved. Unfortunately, is seems to have no end, even though human beings should try to get on well with the world they live in.