Risk – Page 3 – Data Not Drama

You Can’t Code Culture Into DNA

DNA is the biological blueprint for an individual’s physical and behavioral traits, but it does not encode specific cultural practices.

Don’t Feel Bad for Loving the Job

Criticizing firefighters for reminiscing about the “old days,” based on the assumption that younger firefighters will abandon reason and education to emulate their predecessors, is insulting to senior firefighters, younger firefighters and department leadership.

Going On 13 Years

Discussion introducing facts helps alleviate the fear while still accepting that what someone else’s department does or does not do is fine by you if you don’t work there.