Ch. 5: Site Management Flashcards
What is the major emphasis of site management?
Establishing control - Assuming command, isolating people - establishing an isolation perimeter and hazard control zones.
What is addressed early in the incident that ultimately helps the IC manage the biggest problem first - people?
Site management tasks
What should the IC do to protect responders and spectators?
Clear the most hazardous areas first and use an isolation perimeter/hazard control zones
What is established when the first-arriving unit responds to the incident scene, while all other units are ordered to stage at a safe location close to, but away from the scene?
Level I Staging
What is the highest strategic priority for any IC?
Life Safety
What is established as the IC designates a fixed location where resources responding beyond the initial response can be placed until given a tactical assignment?
Level II Staging
Without what, the HazMat scene will usually degenerate into an unsafe, disorganized group of freelancers?
Strong, centralized command
What facilitates safety and accountability by allowing for the orderly, systematic, and deliberate deployment of responders?
Staging procedures
What is employed as a resource management tool when an incident escalates past the capability of the initial response and for sustained response operations?
staging
What is the designated crowd control line surrounding the incident scene to maintain the safety and security of the spectators and the responders?
Isolation Perimeter
What is the objective in setting up the isolation perimeter?
To immediately limit the number of civilian and public safety personnel exposed to the problem.
What are designated areas at a hazardous materials incident based on safety and the degree of hazard?
hazard control zones
What is the primary purpose of establishing three different Hazard Control Zones within the isolation perimeter?
To provide the highest possible level of control and personnel accountability for all responders working at the emergency scene.
Where should the public and the news media be located in an incident?
Outside of the isolation perimeter
What should be established within the Hot Zone to control any exposed personnel until they can be safely managed?
Area of Refuge
What should be established through air monitoring, and clearly marked and posted on the IC’s tactical worksheet?
Hazard Control Zones
Most Hot Zone operations can be accomplished with a minimum of ______ personnel working for specified time periods using the Buddy System.
four
What is the purpose of the Buddy System?
To provide rapid assistance in the event of an emergency.
Whose key functions include staffing entry control points and patrolling the perimeter for unauthorized entry into the control zones?
law enforcement
For rescue operations in a hazmat environment to be effective, first responders must have:
1) the proper training
2) pre-established SOPs
3) appropriate PPE and equipment
What strategy involves directing people to go inside of a building, seal it up as effectively as possible, and remain there until the danger from a hazmat release has passed?
Protection-in-Place/Shelter-in-Place
What is considered of a building that will greatly influence how successful protection-in-place will be?
age and construction
What is the controlled relocation of people from an area of known danger or unacceptable risk to a safer area or one in which the risk is considered to be acceptable?
evacuation
What are implemented by the IC when the incident affects one or two buildings in the vicinity of the incident?
limited-scale evacuations
What is indicative of when an incident presents with several people exhibiting signs and symptoms of illness but there is no apparent source?
Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)
What is a situation in which occupants of a building experience acute health effects that seem to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified?
SBS
What should the IC consider in a suspected SBS incident where the signs and symptoms of the affected people become acute?
initiating a limited-scale evacuation
What involves the relocation of large populations from a hazardous area to a safe area?
full-scale evacuations
What must the IC ensure for an evacuation to be successful?
People are quickly alerted of an emergency in progress.
What manner does a good alerting strategy attempts to notify the populations at risk?
From closest to the danger area first then expand outward.
What is one of the most frequent problems encountered in fixed facilities during alerting?
The confusion created by a single warning tone that may also be used to indicate the beginning or ending of work shift, a fire, toxic gas release, and so on.
What is defined as people who cannot self-evacuate by any means of transportation?
Critical Transportation Needs (CTN)
How often should relocation facility shelter managers receive regular situation briefings from the ICP of the EOC?
Accomplished by direct radio or telephone contact on an hourly basis.
When the incident covers a period of days, the IC should consider issuing a written progress report how often?
Posted twice daily in the shelter.
