Chapter 7 - Msg For Age Groups Flashcards
A unit of electric current or amount of electric charge per second.
Ampere
A circuit breaker that shuts off electricity when it detects low, irregular current indicating current leaking from the circuit.
Arc fault circuit interrupter
A colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas produced from the partial combustion of carbon-containing compounds.
Carbon monoxide
The mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs that prevents breathing.
Choking
A solid or liquid material that is capable of igniting and burning.
Combustible Material
Death resulting fro suffocation within 24 hours after submersion in water or liquid.
Drowning.
A medium through which electric current can flow freely.
Electrical Conductor
A medium through which electric current can flow freely.
Insulator
A cigarette with a reduced propensity to burn when left unattended.
Fire-safe cigarette.
A solid, liquid, or gas material capable of burning more easily than a combustible.
Flammable material
A general-use device whose function is to interrupt the electric to an electrical load if it is leaking outside the intended path and escaping to the ground.
Ground fault circuit interrupter
A situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, and property, or the environment.
Hazard
A procedure used to complete airway obstruction. It involves a rescuer standing he hind a patient and using his or her hands to except pressure on the bottom of the diaphragm.
Heimluch Maneuver
A life vest worn for safety in the water.
Personal Floatation device. (PFD)
A substance that can damage, illness, or death to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activities.
Poison
Information to teach the public what they can do to help their families practice, train, purchase, and organize plans and supplies for potential emergencies.
Preparedness Message
Information about safe practices that will help people avoid becoming victims or dangerous situations.
Prevention message
People addressed by and in the presence of a speaker.
primary Audience
A U.S. agency, typically county or city controlled, that is a physical location where emergency telephone calls are received and then routed to the proper emergency services.
Public Safety Answering point.
Information teaching the current responses to emergency situations.
Reaction message
A home sprinkler system operating off the household water main and using piping that is installed behind walls and ceilings in finished areas.
Residential sprinkler.
An area that separates the home from combustible plants and vegetation and helps prevent direct and indirect sources of fire from threatening a home or property.
Safety Zone
People benefitting from messages sent by a speaker or agency via the primary audience.
Secondary Audience
The stoppage of a sufficient supply of oxygen to the body arising from the inability to breath normally.
Suffocation
These look like toys and other gadgets and are not easily identifiable lighters.
Toy like lighter
A measurement of the amount of work done by a certain amount of electrical current at a certain voltage
Watt
Which of the following NFPA standards is titled “Guide for Training Fire Service Personnel to Conduct Community Risk Reduction”?
NFPA 1452
Which of the following reaction messages is at an appropriate level for preschoolers?
Known what smoke alarms sound like
What type of message does the educator use to teach the correct reactions to emergency situations?
Reaction
What type of audience is the group directly addressed by the educator?
Primary
Which of the following reaction message subjects is at an appropriate level for adults?
Close the door
Which of the resources below can assist safety educators with fire prevention ad education data, educational materials and lesson plans to for all ages, and research reports; national statistics, standards, and information on fire safe cigarettes, fireworks and codes?
National Fire Protection Agency
Which of the following prevention messages subjects is at an appropriate level for older adults?
Know your limitations
Which of the following prevention message subjects is at an appropriate level for preschoolers?
Stay away from hot things
Which type of audience is composed of those who might have influence over the safety or the prop army audience or can be influenced by educator’s contact with the primary audience?
Secondary
Which of the following prevention message subjects is at an appropriate level for adults?
Suicide
Which of the following prevention message subjects is at an appropriate level for elementary-aged children?
Electrical
Which of the following preparedness message subjects is at an appropriate level for adolescents?
Babysitting kits
What type of message does an educator use to teach the general public to handle everyday emergencies at their level?
Preparedness
Which of the following preparedness message subjects is at an appropriate level for elementary-aged children?
Home emergency telephone list
Which of the following reaction message subjects is at an appropriate level for adolescents?
Severe weather and natural disasters
Which type of safety message a does a safety educator drill down to the root of cause of the fires and injury’s they witness, which they use the results to develop the message?
Prevention
Which of the following reaction message subjects is at a appropriate level for elementary-aged children?
Poison Control
Which of the following preparedness messages subjects is at an appropriate level for preschoolers?
Fire fighters are helpers.
Which of the resources below can assist safety educators by providing programs, materials, data, and research age-appropriate fire prevention and natural disasters?
U.S. Fire Administration
Which of the following prevention message subjects is at an appropriate level for adolescents?
Babysitting
