Chapter 40 Incident Management Flashcards
The shipping papers use for transport of chemicals over roads and highways also referred to as freight bills
Bills of lading
Any container other than non-bulk storage containers such as fix tanks, highway cargo tanks, rail tank, cars totes, an inter-model tanks
Bulk storage containers
Glass, plastic or steel containers ranging in volume from 5 to 15 gallons, 19 to 57 L
Carboys
An AREA set up by physicians, nurses and other hospital staff near major disaster scene where patients can receive further triage and medical care
Casualty collection area
An agency that assist emergency responders and identifying and handling hazardous materials TRANSPORT incidence
Chemical Transportation Emergency Center, CEMTREC
An incident that is contained all casualties are accounted for
Closed incident
An area at a hazardous materials, incident for the agencies involved in the operations referred to as the clean zone or support zone
Cold zone
In incident command the position that oversees the incident and objectives
Command
The designated field command center where the incident commander and support staff are located
Command post
Any vessel or receptacle that holds material including storage vassals pipelines in packaging
Container
Areas at a hazardous materials incident that are designed as hot, warm, or cold based on safety issues, and the degree of hazard found there
Control zones
Portable compressed, gas containers used to hold liquids and gases, such as nitrogen, argon, helium, and oxygen they have a range of size is an internal pressures
Cylinders
The process of removing or neutralizing and property, disposing of hazardous material from equipment patients and responders
Decontamination
The designated area in a hazardous materials, incident, where all patients and responders must be decontaminated before going to another area
Decontamination area
The process of directing responders to return to their facilities, when work at a disaster for mass. Casualty incident has finished, at least for those particular responders.
Demobilization
A widespread event that disrupts community resources and functions, intern, threatening public safety, citizens lives andproperty
Disaster
Barrel like containers used to store a wide variety of substances including food, grade materials, corrosives, flammable liquids, and grease
Drums
A preliminary action guide for first responders, operating at a hazardous materials, incident, and coordination with the US Department of transportation, labels and placard‘s marking system
 Emergency response guidebook ERG
An incident command, the person appointed to determine the type of equipment and resources. Need it for a situation involving extrication or special rescue also called the rescue officer.
Extraction supervisor
An incident command the position in an incident, responsible for accounting of all expenditures
Finance administration
When individual units or different organizations, make independent and often efficient decisions about the next appropriate action
Freelancing
The shipping papers used to transport of chemicals along roads and highways also referred to as bills of lading
Freight bills
Any substance that is toxic, poisonous radioactive, flammable, or explosive and causes an injury or death with exposure
Hazardous material
An incident, in which a hazardous material is no longer properly contained and isolated
Hazardous materials incident
An area immediately surrounding it, hazardous material spell or incident site that endangers life and health
Hot zone
An oral or written plan stating general objectives, reflecting the overall strategy for managing an incident
Incident action plan
The overall leader of the incident command system, to whom commanders or leaders of incident, command system, divisions report
Incident commander IC
A system implemented to manage disasters in mass casualty incident in which section Chiefs, including finance in ministration logistics, operations, and planning report to the incident commander
Incident command system (ICS)
Shipping and storage vessels that can be either pressurized or nonpressurized
Intermodel tanks
An area that designated by the incident, commander or design, he in which public information officer’s from multiple agencies distribute information about the incident
Joint information Center, JIC
A sorting system for pediatric patients younger than eight years or weighing less than 100 pounds
 Jump start triage
In incident command the person who relays information and concerns and request among responding agencies
Liaison officer
An incident command the position that helps procure and stockpile equipment and supplies during an incident
Logistics
An emergency situation involving three or more patience or the templates great demand on the equipment or personal of the EMS system, or has the potential to produce multiple casualties
Mass casualty incident, MCI
A form provided by manufacturers in compounders of chemicals, containing information about chemical composition, physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards emergency response and waste disposal of a specific material also known as a safety data sheet SDS
 Material safety, data sheet MSDS
An agreement between neighboring EMS systems to respond to mass casualty incident or disasters in each others region
Mutual aid response
A department of homeland security system designed to enable federal state and local governments and private sector, and non-governmental organizations to effectively and efficiently, prepare for prevent respond to and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause size or complexity, including acts of catastrophic terrorism
National incident management system, NIMS
Any container other than bulk storage containers, such as drums bags, compressed, gas, cylinders, and cryogenic containers
Non-bulk storage vessels
An incident that is not yet contained, there may be patient to be located in the situation may be ongoing, producing more patience
Open incident
An incident command the position that carries out the orders of the commander to help resolve the incident
Operations
Signage required to be placed on all four sides of the highway transport vehicles railroad tank cars and other forms of hazardous materials transportation the sign identifies the hazardous contents of the vehicle, using the standardization system with diamond shaped indicators
Placard’s
An incident command the position that ultimately PRODUCES A PLAN to resolve any incident
Planning
 An incident command the person who keeps a publican formed in, relate any information to the media
Public information officer, PIO
The area that provides protection and treatment to firefighters and other responders working at an emergency here workers are medically monitored and receive any needed care as they enter and leave the scene
Rehabilitation area
In incident command the person who establishes an area that provides protection for responders from the elements in the situation
Rehabilitation supervisor
Incident command the person appointed to determine the type of equipment and resources needed for a situation involving extrication or special rescue also called extrication officer
Rescue supervisor
Incident command the person who monitors the scene for conditions or operations that may present a hazard to responders and patience. He or she may stop an operation when responder safety is an issue.
Safety officer
Engineered method to Control spilled or release product if the main containment vessel fails
Secondary containment
A command system in which one person is in charge generally used with small incidents that involve only one responding agency or one jurisdiction
Single command system
An incident command this subordinate positions under the commanders direction to which the workload is distributed. The ideal supervisor/ worker ratio is one supervisor for five subordinates.
 Span of control
Incident command the person who locate an area to stage equipment and personnel and traction unit arrival in deployment from the staging area
Staging supervisor
The end of an incident command structure when an incident draws to a close
Termination of command
Indicates the risk there’s a hazardous material, poses to health of an individual who comes in contact with it
Toxicity levels
The area and a mass casualty incident, where ambulances and crews are organized to transfer patients from the treatment area to receiving hospitals
Transportation area
An incident command the person in charge of transportation sector in mass casualty incident, who assigns patients from the treatment area to waiting ambulances in the transportation area
Transportation supervisor
The location and a mass casualty incident, where patients are brought after being triage and assigned a priority where they are reassess, treated and monitored until transport to the hospital
Treatment area
An incident command the person usually a physician who is in charge of indirect EMS providers at the treatment area and a mass casualty incident
Treatment supervisor
The process of sorting patience based on the severity of injury in medical need to establish treatment and transportation priorities
Triage
An incident command the person in charge of the incident, command triage sector who directs the sorting a patient into triage categories and a mass casualty incident
Triage supervisor
A COMMAND SYSTEM used in larger incidences in which there is a multi agency response or MULTIPLE jurisdictions are involved
Unified command system
The area located between the hot zone and the cold zone as a hazardous materials incident the decontamination corridor is located in this song
Warm zone
