8- HazMat- Incident Command System and Action Plan Implementation Flashcards
A ____ ____ structure controls hazmat incidents and allows coordinated response across multiple jurisdictions and agencies with overlapping authority and responsibility.
Unified Command
Applicable to any incident, ICS provides the following core concepts:
*8 answers
-Common terminology
-Integrated communications
-Unified command structure
-Modular organization
-Manageable span of control
-Consolidated IAPs
-Comprehensive resource management
-Accountability of resources
ICS position titles are as follows:
Incident Commander-
Command Staff-
General Staff (section)-
Branch-
Division/Group-
Unit/Team-
Incident Commander- Commander
Command Staff- Officer
General Staff (section)- Chief
Branch- Director
Division/Group- Supervisor
Unit/Team- Leader
____ ____ have the delegated authority to direct, order, and control resources.
Command Staff
If the incident is large and/or complex, the IC may delegate command authority to the following COMMAND STAFF positions:
*3 answers
-Safety Officer
-Public Information Officer
-Liaison Officer
GENERAL STAFF are personnel who represent the MAJOR functional sections. The functional sections are:
*4 answers
-Planning
-Operations
-Logistics
-Finance/Administration
The ____ Section Chief reports directly to the IC. They manage all incident tactical activities and ensure tactical priorities meet the IC’s strategic goals. They work closely with the Safety Officer to ensure the safety and welfare of personnel working in their section.
Operations
The ____ Section Chief gathers, assimilates, analyzes, and processes the information needed for effective decision making.
Planning
The ____ Section Chief is also responsible for specific units such as Resource, Situation, Demobilization, Documentation, and Technical Specialists.
Planning
The ____ Section Chief provides facilities, services, and materials in support of the incident. They also direct units such as the Service Branch and the Support Branch.
Logistics
The ____ Officer communicates between Command Staff (IC and others) and supporting agencies at the incident. They also respond to requests from incident personnel who need to contact assisting and cooperating agencies.
Liaison
The ____ Branch and ____ Branch are within the LOGISTICS section.
The ____ Branch includes medical, communications, and food services.
The ____ Branch includes supplies, facilities, and ground support (vehicle services).
Service and Support
Service Branch- medical, comms, food services
Support Branch- supplies, facilities, ground support
Not all incidents require the establishment of the ____ Section. This section’s chief must address cost recovery after the incident and may not need to be on-site.
Finance
Hazmat technicians may established a Hazardous Materials ____ or ____ to manage technical activities within the control zones.
Branch or Group
The Hazardous Materials Officer (identified in NIMS as the Hazardous Materials Branch ____ or Group _____) reports to the OPERATIONS Chief. They are responsible for implementing the phases of the IAP dealing with Hazardous Materials.
HazMat Branch Director or HazMat Group Supervisor
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The _____ Team Leader: Reports directly to the HazMat Officer and is responsible for all personnel assigned to entry operations. Primary duties are to ensure proper use of PPE, function of detection/monitoring devices, and preposition any tools or equipment. Also responsible for the backup team. The backup team’s only responsibility is to remove stricken entry team members from the hot zone.
Entry Team Leader
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The _____ Leader reports directly to the HazMat Officer and works closely with the Entry and Decontamination Team Leaders. They control all movements through the various routes and corridors of the hazmat incident site to prevent the spread of contamination.
Site Access Control Leader
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The _____ Manager reports directly to the Site Access Control Leader and works closely with the Entry and Decontamination Team Leaders along with the HazMat Medical Team Leader to prevent victims from spreading contamination.
Safe Refuge Area Manager
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The _____ Team Leader reports directly tot he HazMat Officer and works closely with the Safe Refuge Area Manager, the Medical Officer, and the Entry Team Leader. They are responsible for all decon operations and personnel inside the WARM zone.
Decontamination Team Leader
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The HazMat _____ Team Leader reports directly to the HazMat Officer and works closely with the Decontamination Team Leader, Safe Refuge Area Manager, and HazMat Safety Officer. They are responsible for medical evaluation of personnel, triage, treatment, and maintaining medical records for both responders AND victims.
HazMat Medical Team Leader
Large or complex hazmat incidents may involve expanding the command structure by adding functional teams. The functional position team leaders manage the tactical operations carried out in the hot zone.
The _________-HazMat Reference reports directly to the HazMat Officer and works in conjunction with the Planning Section Chief and the Incident Safety Officer. They provide technical information assistance to the HazMat Branch using a variety of reference sources.
Technical Specialist- HazMat Reference
When an IC suspects an incident involves criminal activities or WMDs, the IC must establish:
An Intelligence and Information Section
The _________ defines an area surrounding the incident in which persons may be exposed to life-threatening concentrations of material.
Initial Isolation Zone
The _________ defines an area DOWNWIND from the incident in which persons may become incapacitated and unable to take protective action and/or incur serious or irreversible health effects.
Protective Action Distance
The ___ Zone (aka the “exclusion zone” or “isolation zone”) is the potentially dangerous area surrounding an incident.
Hot
The ____ Zone (aka the “contamination reduction zone/corridor”) includes control points to the decontamination corridor.
Warm
The ____ Zone is the site for:
-Isolating contaminated tools, equipment, PPE
-Decontaminating victims, personnel, animals, equipment
-Staging for backup personnel
Warm
The ____ Zone area includes:
-Command Post
-Staging Area
Cold
The ____ Zone is used to control access and egress from the incident site. It may include a PPE donning area and the backup team. The responder rehab station is also located here. Medical triage, treatment, and transport may work out of this area also.
Cold
Other support teams (aside from command post, staging area, PPE donning area, backup team, rehab, medical) within the cold zone may include:
*3 answers
-Criminal Investigation team
-Logistical Support team
-Research team
The ____ Section establishes and maintains the staging area.
Operations
Ideally, emergency responders and equipment will be staged at multiple locations in case of an attack on a primary staging area. Some departments use corner staging (aka “quarter staging”) that does two things:
-Distances emergency response personnel from one another to limit their exposure as a target and minimize the effects of a secondary attack/device
-Allows personnel to envelop the scene and provide multiple treatment areas or operation function points
At terrorist incidents in the US, the FBI establishes an evidence perimeter ___ times the distance of the farthest known piece of evidence.
1.5x the distance
There are THREE main categories of protective clothing:
-Structural fire fighting protective clothing
-High temperature-protective clothing
-Chemical-protective clothing (CPC)
*CPC includes liquid splash-protective clothing and vapor-protective clothing
The primary benefit of the “buddy system” is:
To provide rapid help in an emergency.
*If one person becomes incapacitated, the other can call for help or MAYDAY and provide immediate assistance.
If an entry team member is unable to safely exit the hot zone or has an event that cannot be resolved within ______, they should declare MAYDAY.
30 seconds
The primary assignment of the backup team is:
The emergency removal of entry team members from the hot zone.
*Backup personnel must be dressed in the same level of PPE as the entry team
At emergency incidents, responders should use a signaling system that will advise personnel inside the danger area when to evacuate. Communication methods can include:
*4 answers
-Intrinsically safe portable radios
-Voice signals
-Hand signals
-Other predetermined signals as determined by the AHJ
The IC must address the following factors for large-scale evacuations:
*4 answers
-Notification (alert the public of the need to evacuate and tell them where they should go)
-Transportation (In advance, plan alternate means of transportation, such as school buses, public transit systems, planes, trains, boats, barges, and ferries)
-Relocation facilities and temporary shelters (designate appropriate evacuation shelters in the local emergency response plan)
-Reentry (consider how people will be allowed to return to evacuated areas)
Evacuate contaminated or potentially contaminated individuals to an area of safe refuge (or a triage and treatment area as appropriate) within the _________ to await decontamination.
Isolation Perimeter
________ is an active (offensive) role or aggressive posture to physically protect individuals in harm’s way.
It may include:
-Using hose streams to diffuse a plume
-Securing a neighborhood or area
-Turning off HVAC systems to minimize spread of contaminants
Protecting/Defending in Place
Exposure protection at hazmat incidents is a ______ tactic.
Defensive control
Responders trained to the Operations Level with appropriate equipment can undertake defensive control options AWAY from the product release. Defensive control options include:
*4 answers
-DAMMING (actions to prevent or limit the flow of a liquid or sludge past a certain area)
-DIKING (actions using raised embankments or other barriers to prevent movement of a liquid or sludge to another area)
-DIVERTING (actions to direct and control movement of a liquid or sludge to an area that will produce less harm)
-RETENTION (actions to contain a liquid or sludge in an area where it can be absorbed, neutralized, or removed. Often a longer-term solution than other methods)
Operations Level OFFENSIVE actions are limited to activities at a safe distance from the product, such as:
Closing remote valves to stop further product from spilling/leaking.
When it comes to fire control, the main operational tactics used with flammable liquids are:
*3 answers
-Fire extinguishment
-Vapor suppression
-Ignition prevention
Emergency responders perform THREE types of decon:
-Emergency Decontamination (process of removing life-threatening contaminants from the victim as quickly as possible without regard for the environment or property protection)
-Mass Decontamination (process of removing life-threatening contaminants from large numbers of people in the fastest possible time to reduce surface contamination to a safe level, with or without a formal decon corridor or line)
-Technical Decontamination (process of using chemical or physical methods to thoroughly remove contaminants from responders- primarily entry team personnel- and their equipment, usually conducted with a formal decon line or corridor)
At a minimum, responders should establish _____ decontamination at all hazmat incidents.
Emergency
CAN stands for:
-CONDITION Status (Improving, Static, Deteriorating)
-ACTIONS (In progress, Completed, Planned)
-NEEDS (Met at this time, Additional resources needed or anticipated)
Normally, the last strategic goals at a hazmat incident are __X__ and ___Y__ efforts.
“X” deals with returning the incident scene and responders to a preincident level of readiness.
“Y” involves documenting the incident and using this information to evaluate the response.
X = Recovery
Y = Termination
The “termination” phase includes THREE procedural actions:
-On Scene Debriefing
-Postincident Analysis (PIA)
-Incident Critique
(in that order)
