Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

[u/TigerBack56]

So i come from a military background and I know how stupid some policies can be. Our department has a few i can think of but I wanted to here from the community, what is your departments dumbest/strangest legitimate policy?

[u/glinks]

I’m on the only department I know of that isn’t allowed to work out on shift, even during nonoperational hours. It “increases the risk of injury”. Spoke with the city’s lawyers about it in our upcoming union negotiations, and they’re on our side.

[u/bartleby913 → u/glinks]

There is probably some truth to this. I don't know exact numbers but maybe close to 40-50% of our injuries are during PT. But that's a necessary evil.

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/bartleby913]

….

Um.

Define PT? 

Lifting weights or doing cardio on a bike? I don’t believe it.

Doing training (ladders, drags, etc., or sports?  That I could believe.

[u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

We’ve got a lot of power lifters and cross fitters that will start a workout, run calls, come back, and jump right back in. Something inevitably tears, strains, rolls, you name it. A lot of our injuries are related to this as opposed to actual training injuries.

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517]

Then. More sensible policy would be informing actual evidence based lifting, and ban bro powering lifting and CrossFit nonsense.

[u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

For sure, I’m not sure any policy would stop people from warming up, starting a lift, coming back, then tearing something because they’re not warm anymore. That’s just nature of the job in combination of getting older and overestimating their capabilities. Simply put, my department is largely so busy that interrupted workouts are just the norm and it is hard to get a real workout in sometimes and guys just fuck up, leading to injury. Even jumping back into a light weight bench or squat after running calls has fucked guys up. I’m all for policy that could fix this, though.

[u/PerrinAyybara → u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517]

That's not just the "nature" of things. You can most definitely lower that number, it's astronomical

[u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517 → u/PerrinAyybara]

What number was said that’s astronomical?

[u/PerrinAyybara → u/Jumpy_Secretary_1517]

The original person said 40-50%