Chapter 16

Question 1

Each fire and emergency services organization should operate within the parameters of a risk management plan.

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Question 2

The organization’s chief executive officer is responsible for developing the organizational risk management plan.

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Question 3

NFPA 551, guide for the evaluation of fire risk assessments.

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Question 4

NFPA 1250, recommended practice in fire and emergency service organization risk management.

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Question 5

NFPA 1500, standard on fire department occupational safety and health program

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Question 6

NFPA 1521, standard for fire dept. safety officer

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Question 7

NFPA 1600, standard on continuity, emergency, and crisis management

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Question 8

The CO is responsible for the safety of all personnel assigned to the unit or under the officer’s command at an emergency incident.

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Question 9

The officer uses risk management to determine the appropriate responses to the health, safety, and wellness risks that the unit faces.

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Question 10

Identified risks should be evaluated in terms of frequency and severity.

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Question 11

OSHA refers to frequency as incident rate.

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Question 12

If a particular injury or accident occurs repeatedly, it will likely continue to occur until a job hazard or a task analysis identifies the root cause, and the organization implements effective control measures.

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Question 13

The root cause is the most basic reason an accident occurs, and the source or origin of the accident.

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Question 14

The results of the frequency and severity assessments help establish priorities for determining action.

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Question 15

Any risk that has both a high probability of occurrence and serious consequences deserves immediate action and should be considered a high priority item.

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Question 16

After the risks have been prioritized, it is time to apply risk control measures.

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Question 17

Risk avoidance - avoiding the activity that creates risk

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Question 18

Risk transfer - physically transferring the risk to someone else or purchase insurance.

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Question 19

Control measures - Implementing effective control measures is the most common method used for risk management.

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Question 20

While control measures will not eliminate the risk, they can reduce the likelihood of personnel injury or mitigate the severity.

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Question 21

Monitoring ensures a dynamic risk management system and facilitates periodic reviews of the program.

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Question 22

Implementing the risk management plan requires communication, training, and application.

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Question 23

When applying evaluation techniques, the CO or HSO compares the plan’s desired results to its actual results.

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Question 24

CO’s should compare the cost and benefits of implementing risk reduction strategies.

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Question 25

The risk management plan should include procedures for making revisions.

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Question 26

Accidents are unplanned, uncontrolled but, usually, avoidable events resulting from unsafe acts and or unsafe conditions.

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Question 27

To reduce the potential for accidents or to reduce their severity, each organization must implement an accident investigation policy and procedure.

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Question 28

The HSO and the organization’s safety and health committee will have the ultimate authority for accident analysis.

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Question 29

The CO will have the responsibility for doing the initial accident investigation based on the procedure.

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Question 30

When an accident occurs, an investigation is conducted to determine its root cause.

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Question 31

Accident investigations should be objective, impartial, and directed toward fact finding, not fault finding.

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Question 32

When conducting a workplace accident investigation, the CO should interview all participants and witnesses and document all relevant factors.

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Question 33

For a comprehensive investigation, the CO should understand the impact of training, education, and experience on reducing the occurrence of accidents.

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Question 34

Workers who fail to control the factors leading to an accident because of mental, psychological, or physical reasons will likely be involved in accidents more often than other workers.

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Question 35

Human factors are an individual’s attributes or personal characteristics that cause the individual to be involved in more or fewer accidents than other people.

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Question 36

Often, an organization can mitigate negative human factors through motivation, training, or technical revision.

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Question 37

Human factors that often contribute to accidents have been classified into three broad categories.

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Question 38

Three human factors contribute to accidents: improper attitude, lack of knowledge or skill, physically unsuited

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Question 39

When it is likely that an exposure will not produce symptoms of an occupational illness, it may be more appropriate to enroll the employee in a medical surveillance program to document any health changes that may be related to the exposure.

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Question 40

When investigating injuries, illnesses, and exposure incidents, ask the same type of questions you would use to gather information at an accident scene.

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Question 41

Accident analysis determines how these factors combined to create one cause and what can be learned from the incident.

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Question 42

Making changes in an emergency responder’s personal behavior or changing the organizations culture will require conscious effort on the part of the administration and membership of the organization.

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Question 43

In the area of safety, company officers have a responsibility to take action.

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Question 44

After completing the analysis and determining the root cause of the accident, injury, job related illness, or health exposure, the officer should identify a solution to resolve the problem.

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Question 45

Statistics verify that cardiac arrest and strokes cause most fire and emergency responder fatalities.

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