Hey there!
I'm Oda, and I love tarako spaghetti so much that I once bought some at a convenience store for my main meal while traveling!
#I'm definitely doing something wrong
This time
I'll talk about
what I've done in my fire service career.
Most of you reading this probably don't know what my fire service career has been like.
So, I'll tell you five things I've done so far!
#Who do you think I am?
#It's day 43
First
◯I went to the prefectural competition with my idea presentation
Title: "The First-Strike Rescue Method"
You might think that going to the prefectural level with an idea presentation is no big deal if you're in the fire service, but that's not the important part.
I didn't actually win any awards.
But that's not the important part.
Actually, the content of this idea presentation is the core concept of the Firefighter Muscle Calendar project.
#Pretty cool, right?
Roughly what I presented was,
More than 10 years ago, when I was about 22 years old, my best friend from my high school soccer team was in a car accident, fell into a coma, and became paralyzed from the chest down and ended up in a wheelchair.
His life changed completely.
Working in the fire service, I've witnessed death up close many times.
The weight of life remains the same, but I was deeply shocked by this accident involving my best friend.
At that time, I proposed the following.
Simply put
『It's normal to respond after an accident happens, but if possible, we want to prevent accidents from happening in the first place. So, let's go to factories, driving schools, construction sites, and other places to teach what kinds of accidents are happening, how to prevent them, and how to minimize damage if one does occur before an accident happens. And let's change the fate of people who would have died in an accident.』
That's what it was.
In other words
Let's take the initiative before a disaster happens.
That's what it was.
It's like fire prevention for fires.
So, I named it "The First-Strike Rescue Method".
This way of thinking is at the root of my approach, so it led to the idea of using the Firefighter Muscle Calendar to provide support before something happens so that there's no need to call 119.
In other words, I want to say that the concept behind the Firefighter Muscle Calendar isn't something I just came up with recently!
#That's a good story
I think a junior colleague probably recorded the audio at the time, so I'll get it sometime and upload it.
The first one got really long.
#Sorry about that
Second
◯Abolishing customary procedures
Firefighters and city hall employees probably understand this, but procedures that would be abolished in 0.2 seconds in the private sector have to be carefully handled in the world of civil servants, with thorough groundwork and established justification.
#It has its upsides and downsides
And if you don't have the right position, the difficulty level is S-rank general level.
#Keirin
#This also has its upsides and downsides
Specifically, there were two things I abolished,
The first was a document called the training deployment report.
What this was is a document where you have to write a report for any kind of training you do.
『Of course! If you do training, you should keep a report of it!』
You might think that,
but this report
only lists
the title of the training (firefighting training)
the names of the trainees (Seishiro Oda, Seitaro Oda, Seitaro Oda)
the training time (from 10:00 to 11:00)
and that's all.
There are no sections to write the details of the training, points for reflection, or methods for improvement.
『Even so, it's decided by ordinances and regulations! You brat! I'll turn you into a lucky charm!』
You might be told that, but this is not a standard form.
In other words, there is no reason we have to create it.
So I thought about why this document existed, and it turns out that the fire service has to submit statistics at the end of the year showing how many hours of training were done in total and by how many people.
The types of training
are divided into several categories,
basic training
search training
scenario training
and other training
and so on.
So, at the end of the year, we would take out the file containing these training deployment reports, calculate each one on a calculator, and compile the statistics.
Well, this was a huge hassle.
So, I
①proved that the training deployment report was not a standard form
and
②created a table that could be automatically calculated in Excel using functions
and brought it to the meeting.
Fortunately, I was able to get unanimous approval,
and put an end to a customary procedure that had lasted 40 years.
#Thank you for everything
By the way, I think I was about 25 years old at the time.
#Pretty powerful, right?
#My seniors were all so understanding!
And the second one
This is quite a big deal.
First,
There is an ordinance that says if fire trucks cannot pass through, you must file a notification in advance!
And the person who has to file the notification is the person doing the work (the contractor).
What was happening was mainly two things:
①Even shaving off a small part of the edge of the sidewalk required a notification
②There were few notifications from contractors, and most were from the city hall (city roads)
and civil engineering (prefectural roads, national roads). Moreover, the same construction work was sometimes notified by both the contractor and the city hall.
That's how it was.
So, when I carefully read the ordinance,
I found out that the person who should file the notification was not the city hall, but the contractor (the business), so I went to the city hall and civil engineering and explained it.
Then, the staff at the city hall and civil engineering offices
said, "Seriously!!! We didn't know! We had to copy all the documents submitted by the contractors and bring them to the fire service, and it was a huge hassle!! We quit! If you add up all the paper, printing, and labor costs from the past several decades, it must have cost around 200 million yen!"
#200 million is just a guess
The story progressed in about a week, and notifications from the city hall and civil engineering stopped.
『If you do that, contractors might stop coming to us!』
You might think that!
It's okay.
Contractors must always get permission from the police and the city hall/civil engineering.
So, contractors will file a notification with us 70,000% of the time.
So, I had the city hall and civil engineering distribute pamphlets containing the ordinance, and I had them explain it on the spot,
and had them say, "You have to file a notification with the fire service right away too!!"
Thanks to that, notifications from contractors steadily increased, and I never had an experience where I couldn't pass through a site!!
This probably saved the city hall and civil engineering a lot of time, copy paper, and printing costs.
It seems this had been going on for about 30 years.
#Thank you for everything
So, this got too long, so I'll make it one more!
◯Development of an Automatic Fire Damage Calculation System
The fire service not only puts out fires, but the Fire Service Act also requires us to find out why the fire started afterward.
Furthermore, the Fire Service Act also requires us to calculate the amount of money lost with the fire to clearly communicate the horror of fire.
But this calculation takes time.
Fire buildings have various structures, and there are really many patterns, such as additions, renovations, remodeling, second-hand purchases, fires during new construction, vacant houses, and abandoned buildings.
All these patterns are not written in a single reference book, so we had to use other reference books or refer to other headquarters' manuals each time.
Also, there are various rules, such as rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, rounding down the market value to the nearest 100 yen, and rounding the total amount to the nearest 1,000 yen.
Because of all that, calculating with a calculator led to a lot of mistakes, and it required numerous corrections, so on average, it took about a month to calculate the damage amount.
To solve this problem, I got the help of a genius colleague who was in sync with me, and over two years,
we created an automatic fire damage calculation system.
Also, to cover all the calculation bases for damage from building fires, I created a manual and proposed it at the meeting.
#By the way, no one asked me to do it.
#I did it voluntarily while doing the work assigned to me.
And thanks to this system, work that used to take a month now takes 10 minutes.
#I'm serious
Actually, I want to roll this system out nationwide.
#I own it
Well, I've done a lot of things, but it's getting long, so I'll just write a few more titles and call it a day.
Once again, this wasn't work I did under orders from my boss; I took the initiative, spoke up, and did it all while getting advice from my seniors.
#My headquarters is amazing!
#They really support their juniors' activities
1 I spotted a city government program for vacant houses and created a scheme for building demolition training in collaboration with the city government.
2 I took several low-ropes rescue courses and lectured about 200 people in total, including at the first-ever two-day special rescue team training.
3 I'm creating footage to recreate realistic fire scenes using projection mapping for fire drills (currently working on it)
#By the way, I did it right after hearing about the rescue symposium
#This happened three months before I retired
#I'm not going to let it go to waste
#I'll see it through to the end
4 I created a control box that can be used for multiple fire drills (it's like snapping wooden inner walls into a stainless steel outer wall)
#Some fire department was doing something similar, so I did it right away
#The stainless steel is my original design
5 I'm proposing to change the content of rescue skills training (currently working on it)
#Collaborative training → skills training
#A headquarters that has never done skills training
#I wish I could have done it
#But I'm retiring
#I'll see it through to the end
Well, that's a rough overview!
Read this! That's awesome!
I'd be happy if you said that!
#This is also a business to share these kinds of things
#I want to be that kind of bridge
#I want to be a clam