Todd LeDuc asks: What’s stopping us from truly changing the fire service culture when it comes to cancer risk mitigation?

Robert Kennedy famously said, “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that were never and say why not.”  I recently was having a conversation about fire service cancer with a well-known and respected industry leader and visionary in the fire service who has served for close to five decades. We were doing a dive on how to tackle and eradicate cancer in the fire service, and whether the latter is even possible. According to the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), 60% of the members honored each year on their memorial wall in Colorado Springs were felled by occupational cancer. This is much in lune with the current essay contest that our friends at W.S. Darley are hosting, which focuses on how to change fire service culture.

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Fire Service Health and Culture Change