Discussion: Sexual Harassment

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Discuss


While there have been female firefighters in your department now for several years, none has been working out of your station even when filling in for co-workers. Your crew is not the most accepting of women being in the fire service. While they have been to sexual harassment prevention training and have read the sexual harassment prevention policy and signed off on it, you are concerned about what you sense as their underlying attitudes.

Due to the number of new recruits, one of the new female firefighters has been assigned to your station and your crew effective in 30 days. She will just have finished the academy based recruit training.How do you ensure that your firefighters interact with her and treat her professionally? Include in your discussion what conversations you might have with your crew and what conversations might you have with the new recruit. Please begin by identifying your affiliation (department/agency) and type of agency (career, volunteer, or combination).

(If you make some assumptions about your station or the situation in responding to this scenario, share the essence of those assumptions with us.)

Respond

Participate in this discussion by responding in the discussion area for this course. After posting your original topic, follow up by responding to at least two of your colleagues with 125-word responses. Your postings must always combine your original thinking and opinion with authoritative references. Cite your sources, check your spelling and grammar, and make sure that your postings are well written.

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