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11 Delivery Of Emergency Services I Flashcards

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Within 3 to 4 minutes temperature and a structure fire can exceed what temperature

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500°F

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The upper human survivability limit is what temperature according to NFPA

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212°f

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In conducting survivability profiling, the company officer asks the following questions

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  1. Our occupancy expected of being or known to be trapped

2. Is it reasonable to assume that the occupants are still alive

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Crew resource management is a system that optimizes the utilization of all available resources personnel procedures and equipment in order to

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In order to promote safety and improve operational efficiency

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Facets of crew resource management

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Communications. 
Situational awareness. 
Decision-making. 
Teamwork. 
Identifying barriers to those facets
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Crew resource management is designed to create a culture or climate of freedom which personnel are encouraged to contribute to

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The safety and goals of mitigating the incident

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Command staff

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Incident management personnel report directly to the incident commander, includes public information officer safety officer liaison officer

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General staff

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Incident management personnel who represents a major functional sections

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Section

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Organizational level of responsibility for a major functional area of incident management

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Various sections of incident management

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Operations. 
Planning. 
Logistics. 
Finance admin. 
Information and intelligence
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Single resources

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Individual apparatus and personnel required to make them function

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Task force

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Any combination of resources assembled for a specific mission or assignment. Engines ladders bulldozers

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Strike team

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Set number of resources of the same kind and type like engines ladders

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Unlike taskforces, strike teams remain together and

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Function as a team throughout an incident

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15
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Unified command structure is necessary when incident involves or threatens to involve

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More than one jurisdiction or agency

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According to NFPA 1561, standard for the fire department incident management system, and in national action plan establishes

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The overall strategic decisions and assigned tactical objectives for an incident

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17
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A formal written IAP will be required

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Long duration events

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18
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An effective span of control ranges from

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3-7 subordinates per supervisor

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The number of subordinates during span of control can be higher in the following situations

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Subordinates are within sight of supervisor can communicate
Subordinates are performing the same or similar function
Subordinates are skilled in performing the assigned task

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First arriving company officer as incident commander should implement accountability system when

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soon after arrival on the scene

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21
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Incident priorities in order

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Life safety.
Incident stabilization.
Property conservation

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22
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The company officer begins to actively size of the emergency when

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The alarm sounds an emergency notification is received

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Upon arrival first arriving officer as an initial IC will normally

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Establish command. Perform 360. Determine offense or defensive. Assign tasks. Begin completing tactical worksheet

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Layman described the following considerations needed for analyzing any emergency situation

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Facts. Probabilities. Own goal situation. Decision. Plan of operation

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The initial decision may be seen as having three segments

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Resources at scene and en route are in adequate or not.
How to deploy resources at scene most effectively.
What to do with resources that arrive

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26
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Scene control begins with

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First arriving company officer establishing command

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27
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Most common and effective way to control the perimeter of the incident scene

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Establishing three operational control zones. Hot warm cold

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28
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Unseen occupant service involve emergency responders seeing beyond the obvious physical effects of an incident on victims and being aware of

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Being aware of and sensitive to their mental and emotional conditions

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He moved from warmer objects to cooler objects at a rate related to their temperature difference. The greater the temperature differences between the objects the

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The more rapid the transfer rate

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30
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Thermal layering of gases is also called

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Heat stratification. It is the tendency of gases to form into layers according to temperature

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31
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Piloted ignition

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Moment when a mixture of fuel and oxygen counters and external heat or ignition source was sufficient energy to start combustion reaction

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32
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Neutral plane

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Interface of hot and cold gas layers at the opening. Point between thermal layer ending and clear visibility beginning

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33
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Rollover is distinguished from flashover because it involves only

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Only the fire gases at the upper levels and not the other fuel packages

34
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Backdraft occurs during what fire stage

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Decay stage

35
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A smoke explosion is similar to ignition of what type of gas

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Propane and air within it’s flammable range

36
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Thermal properties of a compartment include

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Insulation.
Heat reflectivity.
Retention

37
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Fuel load also called fire load, is a total quantity of

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Combustible contents of the building space or area. Includes all furnishings merchandise finish and structural components

38
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To reduce firefighter injuries or Fidelity’s coaches time proving survivability of been developed. These approaches include recognizing rapidfire development occupant survival profiling, and

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crew resource management, and new rules of engagement

39
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Firefighters should not attack if he’s been fired from the stairway. This location places them in

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The flowpath of hot gases exiting from the stairwell potential collapse of floor system from fire

40
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Temperatures at the bottom of the basement stairs were often what compared to the top of the stairs

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Hotter at the bottom of the stairs than the top

41
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Temperature in a room above the fire our import indicator of

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Fire conditions below and the structural integrity of the floor system

42
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In modern fire environments is coming to experience what stage prior to flashover

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Decay Prior to flashover

43
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Once fires become ventilation limited amount of smoke forced out of structural gaps or openings is

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Reduced or stopped

44
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Firefighters should not be committed to interior offensive firefighting operations and abandoned what they’re like buildings that are known or reasonably believed to be

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Unoccupied

45
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If rescue is contemplated the ability to provide safe ingress and egress for both

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Occupants and firefighters must be the first consideration

46
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Rescued animals while desirable does not meet the criteria for

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Taking great risks

47
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RECEO-VS

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Rescue. 
Exposures. 
Containment. 
Extinguishment. 
Overhaul. 
Ventilation. 
Salvage
48
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Decision making model developed by chief loydd layman that identifies a list of strategic goals for an incident.

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RECEO-VS

49
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Life safety takes precedence over

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Any and all other considerations

50
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In the RECEO-VS model, ventilation can float. Which means

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It can be used when needed throughout the model

51
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The P model, or the operational planning, was initially developed for

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US Coast Guard oil spill field operations guide

52
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The operational planning model describes an incident command system planning process that focuses on the first five steps of the NIMS planning process

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One understand the situation.
Establish incident objectives and strategies.
Develop the plan of action.
Preparing to disseminate or assign plan .
Evaluate revise plan

53
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Size up process actually begins when

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Before an incident has reported and continues throughout the incident

54
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A condition or arrival report by radio should include what information

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First impression of existing hazardous conditions.

Report initial actions officer and you to take. Identify type and location of any barriers that can impede access

55
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Communing the plan to all on scene and responding personnel usually starts with transmitting arrival report by radio and

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Formally assuming command, confirm location of incident and specifies location of incident command post

56
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condition indicators

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Are visual clues to provide the company officer with information to make initial report and decisions

57
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Following the initial size up the first company officer implements

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The operational decisions that have been made

58
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Command option, investigation option

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First arriving company investigates bother responding companies remain staged. First officer assume command and go with company to investigate

59
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Command option, fast attack option

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Situation that requires immediate action to stabilize incident. Company officer goes in with interior crew and commands from inside.

60
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Fast attack option should not last more than

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A few minutes within im

Immediately dangerous to life and health atmosphere

61
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During a fast attack option if the situation is not stabilized or transfer command has not taken place what must be done

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Company officer withdraw and establish command post decide whether to withdraw remainder of crew

62
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Two operational modes

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Offense of mode. Defensive mode

63
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Termination phase of emergency operation may include but are not limited to what activities

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Conducting medical valuations of incident personal. 
Retrieving equipment used. 
Releasing appropriate units. 
Determining cause of incident. 
Releasing to responsible party
64
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Once an emergency has been terminated the company officer may still participate in two important activities

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Cause determination.

Preparing post incident analysis, or after action report

65
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Until it can be properly investigated evidence may need to be protected with

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A salvage cover or cardboard box

66
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Firefighters can secure a scene from entrance and remain there for a reasonable amount of time to investigate when

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Investigation is a continuation of the initial emergency response

67
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An officer responded must accompany an individual when entering the premises before it is released. A written log should be kept showing what

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Persons name, times of entry and exit, description of any items moved or taken

68
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To protect the scene and any evidence what must be done for people entering and exiting

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A single entry control point must be used

69
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Some of the most common sources of evidence contamination include

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Hand tools used. 
 Protective equipment worn
 Fuel powered equipment used. 
Vehicles driving through scene. 
Friends or family removing evidence
70
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First persons in the chain of evidence custody

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Company officers and their personnel

71
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When a fire investigator takes charge of the investigation following evidence information is obtained

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Name and address of current and prior custodian.
Description of modification handling testing or alteration that occurred with current custodian.
Condition of the item when transferred to new custodian

72
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Actions that emergency services performed that are the greatest threat to recovery of evidence or physical indication for incident cause

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Overhaul or accessory actions

73
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The post incident analysis focuses on the activities of the responders without

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Placing blame or finding fault

74
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During a post incident analysis, or critique, information is combined and then analyzed from which individuals

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Company officer, incident commander, safety officer

75
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Two primary areas of post incident analysis of the application and effectiveness of the operational strategy and tactics and

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Personal safety

76
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To develop the post incident analysis, the company should start with a clear description of the site prior to the incident. Next the officer reviews

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The actions that the responding units and agencies took over the course of the incident

77
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Who will the incident commander to sign to write the post incident analysis dealing with strategy and tactics

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An officer, possibly of the command staff, section chief, or other officer present at incident

78
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The responsibility for collecting safety related information for a post incident analysis is assigned to

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The incident safety officer

79
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The primary concerns for the safety issues portion of the post incident analysis to identify which elements

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Violations of SOP, SOG. 
Future topics for company training. 
Poorly defined operational procedures. 
Unforeseen situations. 
Training deficits
80
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Post-incident critique is

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Meeting that generally involves all participating units and agencies, the meeting is based on the post incident analysis

81
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A formal critique should be held once all necessary information has been gathered and reviewed and should occur how soon after the incident

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Within one week

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