Welcome

An internationally recognized expert on fire service health and safety, Jeff Pauley is a senior partner and the Fire Group manager at Pacific Pointe Consulting, Inc. in Summerfield, NC, where he provides training, support, and policy development assistance regarding the fire and post-fire environment. 

After a twenty-three-year career in law enforcement, Jeff was recruited to become a fire investigator in 2010. He served as a deputy fire marshal for the Bedford County (Virginia) Department of Fire & Rescue for five years and as the battalion chief/fire marshal there for two and a half years. He then spent over four years as a fire investigator for EFI Global, Inc. in North Carolina. Jeff also spent many years as a volunteer firefighter. Now retired from the active fire service, he shares his passion for fire service health and safety by consulting, teaching, and serving as a subject matter expert on research projects. 

Jeff’s interest in occupational health and safety began when his boss and mentor died from occupational cancer. He has been a member of the IAAI’s Health & Safety Committee since its establishment in 2016 and served as its chairman from April 2018 to January 2024. He was the lead author of the committee’s first three groundbreaking editions of Fire Investigator Health and Safety Best Practices. He is on the Oversight and Planning Board of the federally funded Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study, serves on the National Advisory Board for the University of Miami’s Firefighter Cancer Initiative and the External Advisory Board for the North Carolina Firefighter Cancer Cohort Study, and is a member of the US Fire Administrator’s Fire Fighter Cancer work group. Jeff has been and is a technical advisor for several post-fire health-related research projects and served on the task group that completely revised the safety chapter for the 2024 edition of NFPA 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations. He is also part of the team that updated the Firefighter Cancer Support Network’s 2013 paper, Taking Action Against Cancer In The Fire Service. Jeff has written numerous published articles and has given many presentations on fire service health and safety. Jeff is the creator of the new Fire Investigation Safety Officer course. 

Jeff holds the IAAI’s certified fire investigator designation. He is a member of the IAAI’s North Carolina chapter, the Fire Department Safety Officers Association, the Institution of Fire Engineers, the International Society for Respiratory Protection, and the American Society of Safety Professionals. To complement his many years of public safety experience, Jeff has an associate degree in law enforcement and a bachelor’s degree in management studies from the University of Maryland, a graduate certificate in public administration from Southern New Hampshire University, and a master’s degree in occupational safety and health from Columbia Southern University.