Chapter 7: Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellness Flashcards
What are some types of acute injuries?
- trauma
- asphyxiation
- cuts and bruises
- thermal stress
- burns
- behavioral health issues
What do chronic injuries include?
- exposure to carcinogens
- behavioral health issues
What are some incident scene risk control measures?
- use of accountability systems
- use of full-protective clothing
- mandatory respiratory protection plans
- health and wellness SOPs or SOGs including rehab
- implementation of the NIMS-ICS
-use of control zones - ## implementation of a preincident planning program for high-hazard occupancies
What are organizations in the US that are good sources for current injury and fatality information?
- NIOSH
- Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS)
- USFA
- NFPA
What is risk management?
-the process of identifying and analyzing the exposure to hazards, selective appropriate techniques to handle exposures, implementing chosen techniques, and monitoring the results of those techniques.
What are the 3 distinct sections a risk management plan should have?
- community risk management
- organizational risk management
- operational risk management
What is community risk management?
-provides the CO with known risks in the community to which responders may be explosed
What is organizational risk management?
- Evaluates risks and hazards that can affect the organization and provides control measures to reduce the frequency, severity and probability of a negative event.
What is operational risk management?
- assess risks and hazards emergency responders face while performing operations, including how to evaluate risk on the scene of incidents
What categories can risk control measures be divided into?
- administrative controls (SOP/SOG, training, regulations)
- engineering controls (apparatus, equipment, lockout tagout programs)
- personal protection controls (PPE)
What are the 5 components of the organizational risk management plan?
- risk identification
- risk evaluation
- establishment of priority for action
- risk-control techniques
- risk-management monitoring
What is the 5-step process for operational risk management?
- situational awareness
- hazard assessment
- hazard control
- decision point
- evaluate
What are some risk factors for firefighter mental illness?
- sleep deprivation
- witnessing traumatic events
- loss of close relationship
- knowing others who have died of suicide
- heavy alcohol/drug use
- major physical illness/injury
- isolation
What are warning signs of firefighter mental illness?
- sudden withdraw from social contact
- increasingly reckless behavior
- having a suicide plan
- persistent feeling of hopelessness
- mood swings
