Write a 200-word original response to the questions:
1. What is your final analysis of the policy/liability driven top-down model of health and occupational safety programs in the emergency services? What are the strengths and limitations to complete and comprehensive department policy manuals and national safety rules and regulations? How do these compare with bottom-up strategies for increasing health and wellness? Are these two models of effecting change for increased safety and health mutually exclusive, compatible, complementary, conflicting, etc.?
2. What are the main advantages and limitations to an emergency responder’s taking an holistic approach to living well? Is living well easier or more difficult when one is not under the external pressures of others to make the changes? Are the choices to change that are based on reason always easy to accomplish? How does helping others increase their health and wellness benefit you and the others in the working group?