Pharos Help Responsible Leaders Look For Gaps Between Policy And Practice.

Don't Bring It Home

Independent Decontamination & Exposure Control Program Evaluation For Public Safety.

What Pharos Does

Pharos provides fire service leaders who demand more than assumption.

answer the question every responsible leader eventually asks:

Is what I believe is happening actually happening?

PPE And Exposure Control Program Evaluation

Independent assessment of your department's turnout gear decontamination and exposure reduction program against current standards, and operational reality. From arrival to end of shift - is where the exposure lives. Pharos helps responsible leaders identify gaps between policy and practice. Then we help them address it

System and Initiative Evaluation

What We Validate

• Leadership assumptions align with operational reality
• Reporting accurately reflects field execution
• Compliance is behavioral — not just procedural
• Initiatives are producing intended outcomes
• Systems are defensible under scrutiny

How We Work

Structured. Confidential. Independent.

Engagements typically include:

• Cross-rank interviews
• Field and station observation
• Reporting and policy review
• Variance mapping between expectation and execution
• Executive briefing with clear recalibration recommendations

Who We Are

Michael Saylor - Founder and Principal

A military veteran, Company Officer, and Paramedic with over 21 years of service in one of the largest metropolitan fire departments in the United States. He has held every rank from the apparatus floor to command, represented 2,900 members as a union trustee, served on the city's Personnel Retirement Board, and built a comprehensive facility and apparatus decontamination program from concept through citywide adoption — managing a 30-person decontamination team on a 24-hour operational schedule during the most operationally demanding public health crisis in modern fire service history. He has been in your crews' conversations. He has been at your table. He has built programs that had to work in the real world across every shift, every station, and every rank. That is the perspective Pharos brings to every engagement.