Fire Service Personal Integrity Agreement

Fire Service Personal Integrity Agreement

• Respect Yourself! Respect for yourself first, and them respect for others. If you do not respect yourself, you certainly won’t respect others.
• Be positive! Cultivate a positive attitude. If your attitude is negative, you will not succeed. Support and help each other. Firefighting is a team effort and so is life. No one can do it alone —-no one.
• Here comes the judge! Do not judge. There is an old saying, “When you spot it, you got it.” What you dislike in others is often something you do not like inside yourself. Give grace and learn a little patience for both yourself and others.
• Gossip is for insecure people! Do not gossip. If you have an issue with someone or something, the only one that can do something about it yourself and the other person. Go to that person and discuss it with him/her, not others.
• Own your mistakes! If you make a mess, clean it up! When you spill milk what do you do? You clean it up. And if you don’t, it gets harder to clean up the longer you wait. The same goes when you make a mistake with another person. Clean it up and say “your sorry” Don’t wait too long or you risk creating permanent damage. Pride jeopardizes even the deepest relationships.