Chapter 8 Me Flashcards
The process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the resources and activities of an organization in order to minimize detrimental effects
Risk management
The methods of managing risks fall into 3 types of control
- Administrative
- Engineering
- Personnel protection
What are the 5 principles of risk management
- Identify risk exposure
- Evaluate risk exposure
- Rank and prioritize risk
- Determine and implement risk management control actions
- Evaluate and revise risk control actions
Everyone goes home program was developed by who?
NFFF
National fallen Fire fighter
The 16 fire fighter life safety initiatives where a result of
A fire fighter life safety summit in 2004
Where did the CPAT come from?
Candidate physical ability test
The IAFC partnered with the IAFF to develop The Fire Service Joint Labor Management Wellness Fitness Initiative which produced the CPAT
A fire department is _____ times more likely to experience a suicide in any given year than line of duty death
3 times
Behaviors that affect physical or mental health
Behavior health
What is now considered to be the leading cause of death among fire fighters?
Cancer
Fire fighters have ___ percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer than the general U.S. population
9 %
Fire fighter cancer registry was established in?
2018
Requiring fire fighter to wear seat belts can prevent ___ to ___ fatalities each year
3 to 6
_____ is the primary non-cardiac cause of death during suppression operations, followed by asphyxia and burns
Internal trauma/crushing
Who investigates line of duty death?
NIOSH
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
As part of its fatality assessment and control evaluation program
Fire fighter deaths during training activities represented ____ percent of the nonemergency annual line of duty death total in 2018
46%
Sudden cardiac arrest in the training ground can be secondary to?
Dehydration or heat stroke
NFPA 1041 covers qualification for?
Instructors
The incident safety officer is the ____ line of defense, after the individual and the fire officer, for ensuring that firefighters obtain appropriate rehabilitation
Third
What are the leading type of fire fighter injury?
Sprain and strains
Clothing wore under turnout gear that meets NFPA ____ will further reduce the risk of burn injuries
1975
Every fire department should have an infection program that meets NFPA____
1581
Any unexpected event that interrupts or interferes with the orderly progress of fire department operations
An accident
Accidents that involve serious injuries, fatalities or major property damage are usually investigated by?
The health and safety officer or by other qualified individuals
It is the fire officer responsibility to protect the physical and human resources of the department. The officer must understand the basic principals of investigation. The 3 phases are:
- Identification and collection of physical evidence
- Interviews with witnesses
- Written documentation
The fire fighter near miss website was launched by?
The International Association of Fire Chiefs in 2005
Performing risk management includes?
- Identifying and analyzing risk exposure
- Formulating risk management solutions
- Selecting risk management solutions
- Implementing risk management solutions
- Monitoring risk management solutions
From the fire chiefs perspective what are the 3 risk management responsibilities?
- Manage the community’s fire risk
- Provide a set of services that provide risk management measurements
- Maintain fire department readiness to perform it’s mission every hour of every day
The goal of the everyone goes home program is
To raise awareness of life safety issues, improve safety practices, and allow everyone to return home at the end of his or her shift
The international association of fire chiefs (IAFC) launched a web based system to report?
Near misses
The _____ system provides a method for reporting situations that could have resulted in injuries or deaths. It is confidential and non-punitive.
The national firefighter near miss reporting system
_____ activities should be considered an essential component of every firefighters training regimen
Physical fitness
An approach to reducing fire fighter suicides that is showing promising results is the idea of?
Peer support programs
What is a consistent challenge for fire companies while operating at an emergency incident
Maintaining crew integrity
A analysis of fire fighter fatality investigations from 2004-2009 suggested 4 high order root causes of firefighter line of duty deaths
- Under resourcing
- Inadequate preparation for / anticipation of adverse events during opertations
- Incomplete adoption of incident command procedure
- Suboptimal personnel readiness
The rated time of an SCBA is based on?
A standard consumption rate for an individual at rest and does not reflect typical experience in firefighting operations
Fire service training must anticipate?
- High risk situations
- Urgent time frames
- Difficult circumstances
Capable of causing harm or posing an unreasonable risk to life, health, property, or environment
Hazard
Every fire department should have an infection control program that meets NFPA 1581. This standard identifies 6 components
- A written policy with the goal of identifying and limiting exposures
- A written risk management plan to identify risks and control measures
- Annual training and education in infection control
- A designated infection control officer
- Access to appropriate immunization for employees
- Instructions for handling exposure incidents
