Ch.1: Introduction to the Safety Officer Role

Question 1

The person (or persons) assigned and authorized by the fire chief as the manager of the fire department’s safety and health program.

Answer 1

Health and Safety Officer (HSO)

Question 2

According to NIMS, a member of the command staff responsible for monitoring and assessing safety hazards or unsafe situations and developing measures for ensuring personnel safety.

Answer 2

Incident Safety Officer (ISO)

Question 3

What can an effective ISO be able to reduce?

Answer 3

The chance of firefighter injury or death.

Question 4

What was developed through Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD-5) to create and mandate a consistent nationwide approach to prepare, respond, and recover from domestic incidents regardless of cause, size, or complexity.

Answer 4

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Question 5

What was created in 1970, when Congress passed the William Stieger Act, which included the Occupational Safety and Health act?

Answer 5

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Question 6

Which act was signed into law by President Nixon that gives equal rights and responsibility to employers and employees with respect to safe working conditions.

Answer 6

Occupational Safety and Health Act

Question 7

Which program was developed and used for multiagency incidents on the West Coast?

Answer 7

FIRESCOPE (Fire Resources of Southern California Organized fro Potential Emergencies)

Question 8

What was developed and adopted that established the roots of risk management and a dedicated safety officer in today’s fire service?

Answer 8

NFPA 1500, FD Occupational Safety and Health Program

Question 9

What simple premise was the role of a fire department incident safety officer based on?

Answer 9

We (in the fire service) have not done a good job taking care of our own people.

Question 10

Who can help reduce the potential for firefighter fatalities?

Answer 10

A trained, persuasive ISO

Question 11

What are not free; costly and the cost is based on history: the number of claims and the cost of the claims?

Answer 11

Worker compensation programs

Question 12

What is referred to as how the general public views us and how we perceive ourselves?

Answer 12

Image study

Question 13

What feelings will fill the fire house following a significant event?

Answer 13

Concern, introspection, and even trepidation

Question 14

What can have a damaging effect on a personal level on the involved families?

Answer 14

Firefighter injury

Question 15

What program should be created that is the incident commander’s key to incident safety?

Answer 15

An effective incident safety officer program

Question 16

What title has been focused on preventing injury and the loss of life through solid risk management and hazard reduction?

Answer 16

“Safety officer”

Question 17

What is the responsibility of the Incident Safety Officer?

Answer 17

Hazard identification and communication

Question 18

What was developed and used for multiagency incidents on the West Coast in the 1970s?

Answer 18

FIRESCOPE

Question 19

What is the responsibility of the Health and Safety Officer?

Answer 19

OSHA compliance

Question 20

What is the experience modifier based upon for firefighter worker’s compensation rates?

Answer 20

Three-year loss experience

Question 21

What portion of firefighter deaths occur at the incident scene?

Answer 21

1/3

Question 22

What is less obvious result of serious firefighter injury?

Answer 22

work slowdown

Question 23

What is used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group?

Answer 23

NIIMS

Question 24

Current fire service:

Answer 24

There have been equipment advancements, decrease in the number of fires and an increase in firefighter injuries.

Question 25

Which is the member of the fire department assigned and authorized by the fire chief as the manager of the occupational safety and health program?

Answer 25

Health and Safety Officer (HSO)

Question 26

Which responsibility overlaps between the Health and Safety Officer and the Incident Safety Officer?

Answer 26

Accident investigation