Effective Command - Train for the Unexpected!
Effective Command is an Incident Command, Professional Development program suitable for all officer ranks. It provides an immersive training environment enabling the dynamic and realistic development of Fire Officers, coupled with a behavioural marking assessment tool for recording competence and generating organizational KPI data.
Through the provision of training courses, workshops and assessment tools Effective Command assists Fire Departments in providing the best quality training for their officers.
Professional Standards Alignment
Effective Command (Lamb et. al. 2021) was created as a behavioural marker framework in 2015 by two academic/fire service practitioners (UK and Australia), to address the disconnect between academic research and its application within the Fire Service.
The aim was to develop a robust strategy to implement non-technical skills during Fire-officer training. It focuses on five key behaviours: Situational Awareness, Decision-making, Objective setting, Action behaviours and Review. The Assessment tool has been cross mapped to all relevant NFPA standards (1021 Fire Officer I-IV, 1521, 1026, 1561).
Partnership Working
The Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs (OAFC) have entered into a new partnership with Dr. Katherine Lamb to bring the world-renowned program—Effective Command—to Ontario!