Ch.2 Flashcards
Fire Fighter safety and health has always been an important concern for responders and IC, but has really surfaced as a priority in the last ______ years.
25 years
Just _______ of fire fighter injuries occur on the fire ground.
less than half
________ of the the deaths occur on the fire ground.
1/3
One of major impacts on fire ground safety and health initiative was publication of __________
NFPA 1500
________ established the 2 in 2 out rule.
OSHA
There are _______ Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives:
16
On March 10th and 11th, more than ______ individuals assembled in Tampa, Florida to focus on how to prevent line-of-duty deaths, at first ever National Fire Fighter Life Safety Summit.
200
*2 day event
_________ hosted to National Fire Fighting Life Safety Summit.
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
NFFF and USFA have established the objectives of reducing the fatality rate by ______________ within 5 years and by _______ by 2014
- 25% within 5 years
- 50% by 2014
Of the 16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives, ______ have a direct relationship to fire ground strategies and tactics.
7
Three incident priorities:
- life safety
- incident stabilization
- property conservation
- Life Safety is always number 1 priority
Risk Assessment is based on philosophy:
- take greater risk to save a lot
- take little risk to save little
- take no risk to save what is already lost
Almost ______ of firefighting injuries occur on the fire ground.
Almost half
__________ publishes annual reports on both occupational injuries and deaths in the fire service, since 1974.
NFPA
__________ is a report on all fire fighter deaths and includes analysis of the fatalities in terms of type of duty, cause of death, age group comparisons, and population served comparisons.
NFPA Death Survey
__________ is not an actual survey of all departments, but a sample used to project the national fire fighter injury experience.
NFPA Injury Survey
Both, NFPA death survey and NFPA Injury Survey are published annually in _______________
NFPA’s Fire Journal magazine
_________ oversees the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)
United States Fire Administration (USFA)
One problem with the system is that NFIRS is a ____________
voluntary system
Organizations that publish reports:
- NFPA
- USFA
- IAFF
- OSHA
- NIOSH
- Since 1960, has produced an annual fire fighting death and injury survey.
- Report is more in depth and provides information on lost-time injuries and exposure to infectious diseases.
- Data is gathered from career FD with affiliation which limits study
IAFF
________ is an agency within the Department of Labor
OSHA
OSHA’s regulations are applicable to ______ public departments and ______ private departments.
- many public
- ALL private
There are approx. ______ fire fighters in the U.S.
______ career/paid
______ volunteers
- 1.2 million
- 210,000 carrer/paid
- 1 million volunteer
The NFPA and USFA estimate that on average, ____ FF die in the line of duty each year.
105
In 1998 ______ funded NIOSH to conduct independent investigations of fire fighter line of duty deaths.
Congress
NIOSH began a project in _____ in which it investigates fire fighter line of duty deaths.
1997
NIOSH began project called ________________, that was funded in 1998. This used a ____ part integrated plan.
- Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program.
- 5 part plan
________ are formed at some level of government by an governmental agency and have the force of law.
Regulations
Sometimes called, consensus standards, do not have the weight of law unless adopted by AHJ.
Standards
The entire collection of federal regulations is contained within the ______ titles of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
50 titles
The regulations that have an impact on fire ground operations are primarily those regulations found in ______________
Title 29 CFR
*Is the OSHA regulations
Whether a public fire department is required to comply with OSHA standards depends on whether the state is on of _____ OSHA states.
25
Published documents that do not mandate compliance are known as ____________
Consensus Standards
*When group of professionals with specific expertise come together and agree on how it is to be done.
__________ is a standards-making group. It has no enforcement authority or power; its standards are considered advisory.
NFPA
Standard that has been adopted by both local and state governments as part of fire prevention program:
NFPA 101, Life Safety Code
Respiratory Protection, requires respirators be provided by employer when necessary. Regulation also sets standards of air quality and SCBA maintenance programs:
OSHA Title 29
OSHA 29 CFR 1910 applies to __________, industrial fire departments, and private or contractual fire departments. Only for those that perform interior structural firefighting. The regulation specifically excludes airport crash fire rescue and wild land firefighting operations.
Fire Brigades
NFPA 1500- NFPA 1521- NFPA 1561- NFPA 1584- NFPA 1021- NFPA 1403-
NFPA 1500- Occupational Safety and Health Program
NFPA 1521- Safety Officer
NFPA 1561- Incident Management System
NFPA 1584- Rehabilitation
NFPA 1021- Fire Officer Professional Qualifications
NFPA 1403- Live Fire Training Evolutions
Consensus Standards, because professional with expertise come together to agree on minimal level of performance, tend to become ___________
Standard of care
Standard of care is not a static concept but instead is very ____________
dynamic
PPE for response to fires can be broken down into 3 subject areas:
- Design and Purchasing (NFPA 1900)
- Use
- Care and Maintenance
Types of fire-ground accountability:
- passport system (velcro tag)
- 2 dimensional bar code
- card and clip attached to large ring
_________ are responsible for the accountability of any area of the incident from a specific point of entry.
accountability officer
Phoenix Rapid Intervention Study Performed test- Minutes to get to Ready State- Average total time inside building- Average Total rescue time-
Performed tests- 200
Minutes to get to ready state- 2.5 min
Average total time inside building- 12.33 min
Average Total rescue time- 21 min
Phoenix Rapid Intervention Study
From fire fighter in distress signal to RIC entry it was:
To make contact with downed fire fighter:
- 3.03 min
- 5.82 min
Phoenix Rapid Intervention Study
Found that it took ______ FF to rescue 1 downed fire fighter.
12
Phoenix Rapid Intervention Study
____ in _____ RIC members will also get into some type of trouble.
1 in 5 ric members
Phoenix Rapid Intervention Study
Found that a SCBA bottle rated at 3000psi contained _______ of air
18.7 mins plus/minus 30%
The relationship between fire fighter safety and strategy and tactics can be traced to the __________
incident priorities
Trained personnel within a business or industrial site for firefighting and emergency response:
Fire Brigade
