Chapter 2 - Safety Concepts Flashcards
The operational safety triad consists of three components:
Procedures, equipment and personnel
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A process defined in writing. It can take on many forms: standard operating procedures, standard operating guidelines, departmental directives, temporary memorandums and the like.
Formal process
A strict directive that must be followed with little or no flexibility.
Procedure
An adaptable template that offers wide flexibility in application.
Guideline
A process or operation that is part of a department’s routine but is not written. Because such processes are not written, they are typically learned through new member training, on-the-job training and day-to-day routine.
Informal process
This helps but is arguably the least important factor in the operational triad?
Equipment
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OSHA regulations that often outline the equipment required to accomplish a given process.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
The vast majority of fire service equipment is tailored to meet or exceed?
NFPA Standards
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A value given to protective (insulative) quality of structural firefighting PPE and equipment.
Thermal protective performance (TPP)
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There are three factors that must be addressed as part of the personnel leg of the safety triad:
Training, health and attitude
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The process of learning and applying knowledge and skills.
Training
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The process of developing one’s analytical ability using principles, concepts and values.
Education
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This deals with how to do something?
Training
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This is the understanding of why you do something?
Education
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The chance of damage, injury or loss.
Risk
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The process of minimizing the chance, degree, or probability of damage, loss, or injury.
Risk management
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Five-Step Risk Management 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
- Hazard Identification
- Hazard Evaluation
- Hazard Prioritization
- Hazard Control
- Hazard Monitoring
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In this step, a value is established for a hazard in terms of frequency and severity?
Hazard Evaluation
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The overall strategy of hazard control is ?
Mitigation
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A preferred order of hazard control strategies: elimination, reduction, adaptation, transfer and avoidance.
Mitigation hierarchy
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An action used to effect hazard mitigation.
Countermeasure
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A member of the fire department appointed by the incident commander to assist the ISO in the performance of the ISO functions at an incident scene.
Assistant safety officer (ASO)
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