Ch. 5: Site Management

Question 1

What is the major emphasis of site management?

Answer 1

Establishing control - Assuming command, isolating people - establishing an isolation perimeter and hazard control zones.

Question 2

What should the IC do to protect responders and spectators?

Answer 2

Clear the most hazardous areas first and use an isolation perimeter/hazard control zones

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

Level I Staging

Question 4

What is the highest strategic priority for any IC?

Answer 4

Life Safety

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

Level II Staging

Question 6

Without what, the HazMat scene will usually degenerate into an unsafe, disorganized group of freelancers?

Answer 6

Strong, centralized command

Question 7

What facilitates safety and accountability by allowing for the orderly, systematic, and deliberate deployment of responders?

Answer 7

Staging procedures

Question 8

What is employed as a resource management tool when an incident escalates past the capability of the initial response and for sustained response operations?

Answer 8

staging

Question 9

What is the designated crowd control line surrounding the incident scene to maintain the safety and security of the spectators and the responders?

Answer 9

Isolation Perimeter

Question 10

What is the objective in setting up the isolation perimeter?

Answer 10

To immediately limit the number of civilian and public safety personnel exposed to the problem.

Question 11

What are designated areas at a hazardous materials incident based on safety and the degree of hazard?

Answer 11

hazard control zones

Question 12

What is the primary purpose of establishing three different Hazard Control Zones within the isolation perimeter?

Answer 12

To provide the highest possible level of control and personnel accountability for all responders working at the emergency scene.

Question 13

Where should the public and the news media be located in an incident?

Answer 13

Outside of the isolation perimeter

Question 14

What should be established within the Hot Zone to control any exposed personnel until they can be safely managed?

Answer 14

Area of Refuge

Question 15

What should be established through air monitoring, and clearly marked and posted on the IC’s tactical worksheet?

Answer 15

Hazard Control Zones

Question 16

Most Hot Zone operations can be accomplished with a minimum of ______ personnel working for specified time periods using the Buddy System.

Answer 16

four

Question 17

What is the purpose of the Buddy System?

Answer 17

To provide rapid assistance in the event of an emergency.

Question 18

Whose key functions include staffing entry control points and patrolling the perimeter for unauthorized entry into the control zones?

Answer 18

law enforcement

Question 19

For rescue operations in a hazmat environment to be effective, first responders must have:

Answer 19

1) the proper training
2) pre-established SOPs
3) appropriate PPE and equipment

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Protection-in-Place/Shelter-in-Place

Question 21

What is considered of a building that will greatly influence how successful protection-in-place will be?

Answer 21

age and construction

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

evacuation

Question 23

What are implemented by the IC when the incident affects one or two buildings in the vicinity of the incident?

Answer 23

limited-scale evacuations

Question 24

What is indicative of when an incident presents with several people exhibiting signs and symptoms of illness but there is no apparent source?

Answer 24

Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)

Question 25

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?

Answer 25

SBS

Question 26

What should the IC consider in a suspected SBS incident where the signs and symptoms of the affected people become acute?

Answer 26

initiating a limited-scale evacuation

Question 27

What involves the relocation of large populations from a hazardous area to a safe area?

Answer 27

full-scale evacuations

Question 28

What must the IC ensure for an evacuation to be successful?

Answer 28

People are quickly alerted of an emergency in progress.

Question 29

What manner does a good alerting strategy attempts to notify the populations at risk?

Answer 29

From closest to the danger area first then expand outward.

Question 30

What is one of the most frequent problems encountered in fixed facilities during alerting?

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

What is defined as people who cannot self-evacuate by any means of transportation?

Answer 31

Critical Transportation Needs (CTN)

Question 32

How often should relocation facility shelter managers receive regular situation briefings from the ICP of the EOC?

Answer 32

Accomplished by direct radio or telephone contact on an hourly basis.

Question 33

When the incident covers a period of days, the IC should consider issuing a written progress report how often?

Answer 33

Posted twice daily in the shelter.

Question 34

What is addressed early in the incident that ultimately helps the IC manage the biggest problem first - people?

Answer 34

Site management tasks