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Chapter 2 Safety Concepts Flashcards

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What are the two questions that each ISO need to ask?

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What is the worst that can happen here?

What is the probability of it happening?

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What are the 3 acceptable health and safety principles and practices concepts that are common in risk reduction?

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Operational safety triad, five-step risk management model, and risk/benefit thinking

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Define key term Assistant safety officer ASO

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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

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Define key term Assistant safety officer ASO

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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

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Define key term Code of Federal Regulations CFR

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OSHA regulations that often outline the equipment required to accomplish a given process

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Define key term Code of Federal Regulations CFR

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OSHA regulations that often outline the equipment required to accomplish a given process

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Define key term countermeasure

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An action used to effect hazard mitigation

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Define key term education

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The process of developing ones analytical ability using principles, concepts, and values

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Define key term education

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The process of developing ones analytical ability using principles, concepts, and values

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Define key term formal process

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A process defined in writing. It can take on many forms: sop’s, sog’s departmental directives, temporary memorandums, and the like

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Define key term guideline

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An adaptable template that offers wide flexibility in application

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Define key term informal process

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A process or operation that is part of a departments routine but that is not written. Because such processes that are not written, they are typically leaned through new member training, on the job training, and day to day routine

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Define key term mitigation

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The overall strategy of hazard control

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Define key term mitigation hierarchy

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A preferred order of hazard control strategies: elimination, reduction, adaptation, transfer, and avoidance

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Define key term procedure

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A strict directive that must be followed with little or no flexibility

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Define key term risk

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The chance of damage, injury, or loss

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Define key term risk management

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The process of minimizing the chance, degree, or probability of damage, loss, or injury

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Define key term thermal protective performance TPP

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A value given to the protective insulative quality of structural firefighting ppe and equipment

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Define key term training

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The process of leaning and applying knowledge and skills

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What is the first step in developing a formal SOP?

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Establish an administrative process to create, edit, alter, or delete established processes

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Two ways to approach the question of which topics to write sop’s about first

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needs assessment- flag areas in which firefighters need guidance
external influences-OSHA, ISO, NFPA,

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What makes a well written SOP?

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If firefighters follow it

Clear outline and simple language

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3 places and SOP outline can come from

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Officers meeting, Chiefs direction, another department sample

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Qualities of a good SOP

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Simple language, Clear direction, Tested technique, Easy interpretation, Applicability to many scenarios, Specificity only in relation to critical or life-endangering points

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What do ISO’s need to know about SOP’s

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Which ones are being applied to a given situation, and if the SOP is accomplishing what is intended

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What is the operation triad?

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Procedures, equipment, personnel

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What is the first step to determine if a department has necessary equipment to perform safe operations?

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Officers make a list of all incidents handled by their jurisdiction, with corresponding equipment needed safely handle the incident to the degree department is responsible for

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What is the second step in determining department equipment needs to perform safely?

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Divide equipment list into 2 parts needed and nice to have

28
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What is the third step in determining equipment needs for safe operations?

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evaluate the needed list against equipment on hand, then prioritize for purchasing and budgeting

29
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What are OSHA regulations referred to as? and what do they often outline?

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CFR and equipment required for a given process

30
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What are 3 agencies to consult on helping to determine equipment needs

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OSHA, NFPA, NIOSH

31
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What are the 7 items to consider when writing equipment guidelines?

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Selection, Use, Cleaning and decontamination, Storage, Inspection, Repair, Criteria for retirement

32
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What are the 7 “Right” ppe equipment that make a difference in safety

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Task specific ppe ensembles, Accountability passports and electronic tracking systems, disposable ems mask/gloves, water-free hand disinfectant, intergrated pass and heads up display for scba, high vis vests, nomex materials.

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What are the 11 apparatus equipment that affect safety

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Enclosed cabs, intercom radio headsets, three point seat belts for all riding positions, quick deploy scene lighting, mobile data terminals, ergonomic hose beds, vertical exhaust pipes, wide reflecitve trim rear collision striping, roll up compartment doors roll out trays, gps, automatic vehicle locators

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What are the 7 tool equipment that affect safety

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multi gas detectors, speed shores, rehabilitation kits, command/accountability status boards, on scene contamination reduction kits, two way radio for each firefighter, thermal imaging camera

35
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What are the 6 station equipment that affect safety

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Exhaust removal system, aerobic and strength exercise devices, dedicated disinfection area, fire suppression sprinkler system, extractors for washing structure gear, open air/forced air gear storage

36
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Which is the least important facet of safety triad?

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equipment

37
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What does the effective ISO understand about TPP and structure fire ppe

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Todays ppe has high TPP and does not allow the firefighter to feel high heat until they are deep into a perilous situation

38
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What are the 3 factors that must be addressed as part of the personnel leg of the safety triad

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training, health, and attitude

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What are the 3 factors that contribute to an individuals ability to act safely?

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Acquired training and education,
The persons physical and mental health,
The persons general and current attitude

40
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What are the specific qualities that should be present in training?

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Clear objectives, applicability to incident handling, established proficiency level, identification of potential hazards, definition of the acceptable risk to be taken, list of options should something go wrong, accountability to act as trained

41
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What is the difference in education and training?

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Training is how to do something, education is the why to do something

42
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What shapes and individuals values and attitudes?

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Safety education

43
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What are the essential training subjects for increased incident safety?

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PPE/mastery
Accountability systems/mastery
Company formation and team continuity/mastery
Fire behavior and phenomena/proficient
Incident command systems/proficient
Apparatus driving/proficient under stress
fitness and rehab/practitioner

44
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Keys to improving physical health

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Annual health screening, vaccination and immunization offerings, process to determine individual firefighting fitness, access to a department designated physician, work hardening and mandatory ongoing fitness program, firefighter nutrition education, effective rehabilitation strategies

45
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What are the fundamentals in supporting firefighter mental health?

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Training to recognize atypical incident stress signs and symptoms, creating professional peer outreach options for suicide prevention, including families in social education and team building events, accessing local and national resources to help implement behavioral health program

46
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Which is the hardest people factor affecting safety to address?

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Attitude

47
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What affects the dynamic safety attitude of the individual?

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Safety culture, firefighter death or injury history, examples set by chiefs veteran firefighters

48
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What makes up a departments safety culture

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ideas, skills, and customs that are passed from on generation to another

49
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What are 4 areas to look at to see if safety indicators are being practiced?

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Crews of company members are watchin not only themselves but also their team members
Work areas are neat and organized
Drivers are calm, consistent, and attentive
Observations are openly shared

50
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What are the 5 steps of classic risk management process?

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indentification, evaluation, prioritization, control, monitoring

51
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After hazard is identified how is it assigned a value during evaluation stage?

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Frequency and Severity

52
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What is hazard frequency and how is it descibed?

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probability that an injurious event can happen, described as low moderate high based on number of times that event is present or number of times injury occurred from event

53
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What is hazard severity

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harmful consequence or cost associated with injury or property damage described as low, moderate, or high

54
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What is the simple form control hierarchy

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Design, Guard, Warn

55
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What is the complex control hierarchy

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Eliminate through design, substitute, isolate, adopt engineered control, administrative controls, use ppe

56
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Example of substitute

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use a less dangerous chemical or material

57
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example of isolate

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containment or enclosure

58
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example of engineered controls

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fans or spark-arresting features

59
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example of administrative controls

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trainings, procedures

60
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What is the fire service mitigation hierarchy

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elimiination, reduction, adaptation, transfer, avoidance

61
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Fire example of hazard avoidance

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letting something burn itself out

62
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Fire example of hazard reduction

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fuel alteration in the path of an advancing wildfire like dozer breaks, burn-outs, wet lines

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Fire example of adaption

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high gallon per minute flow rate, flow path management, sound tactics/procedures

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What is a weakness for the five step model

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no provisions for acceptable risk-taking

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