Policies

MISSISSIPPI FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION

POLICY STATEMENT

ALCOHOL
AND
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

It is the policy of the Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association to promote and maintain a zero tolerance attitude concerning the use of alcohol and/or controlled substances in the work place.

This policy is recommended for career, combination, and volunteer fire departments.

This policy further encourages prohibiting response by off duty personnel who may be impaired to any degree by any substance that could degrade his or her ability to function in a professional manner.

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MISSISSIPPI FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION
POLICY STATEMENT

CODE OF ETHICS

One primary goal of the Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association is to promote and support the advancement of the fire service in order to improve and enhance the quality of life of our citizens. As recipients of the public trust, members should at all times represent those ethical principles consistent with professional conduct.

We must:

• Always remember that we operate in a position of public trust
• Use publicly owned resources in an appropriate and effective manner.
• Seek no favor or personal award for official actions.
• Comply with all local and state laws and ordinances.
• Refrain from endorsing products for personal gain.
• Not engage in outside employment inconsistent with the ethical views of the Fire Service or which may impair our primary responsibility as fire officers.
• Handle all personnel matters on the basis of merit.

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MISSISSIPPI FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION
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AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS

It is the policy of the Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association to encourage the use of automatic fire sprinklers in all residential structures, especially those of a multifamily nature, hotels, motels, condominiums, dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses.

The Association encourages its members to become educated on the merits of automatic sprinklers and have available to the general public, when asked, information to assist persons in making sound decisions concerning the installation of fire sprinklers.

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Since the safety and well being of every firefighter depends on individuals physical and medical wellness and the ability of a fire fighter and his/her department to respond in a timely manner to an emergency depends to a great extent on the physical capabilities of the members:

It is the policy of the Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association to encourage the health and wellness of all its members as well all members of the Mississippi Fire Service.

We encourage all departments to use regular medical examinations on all members regardless of division or department assignment.

We encourage all departments to promote physical fitness with regular exercise activity as well as regular supervised physical fitness/agility monitoring.

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SELF DISPATCH

It is the policy of the Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association to discourage self dispatching of any resources to emergencies outside the agencies primary response area

It is encourages that all fire departments develop guidelines and agreements with surrounding jurisdictions to specifically address mutual aid responses.

This policy in no way is intended to interfere with any existing agreements that speak to self or automatic dispatching of resources.

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POLICY STATEMENT

SMOKE DETECTORS

The Mississippi Fire Chief’s Association encourages the installation of smoke detectors in all residential occupancies.

The Associations encourages the installation of hard wired multi station detectors having battery backup in all new construction.

The Association supports the International Association of Fire Chief’s campaign “Change your clock – change your battery”.

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