Incident Safety Officer Flashcards
What are the three components of the Safety Triad?
Procedures, Equipment, and Personnel
What is a formal process?
Defined in writing such as; SOP, SOG, department directives, and temporary memorandums
What is a procedure?
Strict directives that must be followed with little or no flexibility
What is a guideline?
Adaptable templates that allow flexibility in the application
What is an informal process?
A part of the departments routine but not written; OJT, new member training, day to day routine
What are some qualities of a good SOP?
Simple language Clear Direction Tested Technique Easily interpretation Applicability to many scenarios Specific to critical or life endangering points
Define Training?
The process of learning and applying knowledge and skills
Define Education ?
The process of developing one’s analytical ability using principles, concepts, and values
What are three factors that affect personnel with the safety triad?
Training
Health
Attitude
What are the Five Steps of Risk Management ?
Step 1: Hazard Identification Step 2: Hazard Evaluation Step 3: Hazard Prioritization Step 4: Hazard Control Step 5: Hazard Monitoring
What is the meaning of Mitigation ?
Overall strategy used to control a hazard or hazards
What is a risk countermeasure ?
Actions taken to accomplish mitigation; used to effect the hazard mitigation
What is Mitigation Hierarchy?
A preferred order of hazard control strategies;elimination, reduction, adaption, transfer, and avoidance
A well-applied SOP improves _______ _____?
departmental safety
An SOP can become a training _______, a tool to minimize liability, and a tool to ______ members.
outline
guide
The practical application of SOP’s puts the _____ in the best place to suggest changes to SOP’s or even create new ones.
ISO
Failures to follow SOP’s should be addressed during _______ or safety committee meetings.
post-incident analysis
What component of the safety triad is the least arguable factor of the operational triad?
equipment
OSHA regulations. Know as the Code of _______ Regulations.
Federal
Fire service equipment are tailored to meet or exceed ______ standards. These standards are designed to offer a minimum acceptable standard for equipment design, _____ and maintenance.
NFPA
application
Many equipment manufactures use these agencies to show that their equipment meets or exceeds design and performance requirements. What agencies?
NIOSH, ANSI, FM, and UL
What is an example that in some cases equipment designed to improve safety can actually lead to greater risk taking?
Firefighting Structural Gear
TPP - Thermal Protective Performance
What are the 3 factors that must be addressed as part of the personnel leg of the safety triad?
Acquired Training and education
The person’s physical and mental Health
The person’s general and current Attitude
A successful safety program usually work in tandem with successful training program. An organization that is plaqued with injuries or suffering from costly accidents usually has a deficiency in it ________ effort.
Training
What makes a training program effective?
Clear objectives Applicability to incident handing Established proficiency level Identification of potential hazards Defining the Acceptable risk to be taken Options, should something go wrong Accountability to act as trained
What helps shape an individual’s values and attitude ?
Safety Education
What continues to be the leading cause of firefighter LODD and contributor to injuries ?
Stress and overexertion
What are some the prevalent factors that affect safety attitude?
Safety Culture
Firefighter death or injury history of a given department
Examples set by Chiefs, line officers, and veteran firefighter
A departments ____ _____ is made up of the ideas, skills, and customs that are passed from one generation to another.
safety culture
Risk can be simply defined as the chance of ______, injury, or ________.
damage
loss
What is primary function of the ISO?
Identifying hazards (step 1)
Frequency is define as the ________ that an injurious event can happen, it is described as ____, ____, or high based on the number of times a particular hazard is present or number of times injury results from the hazard.
probability
low
moderate
_______ can be viewed as a harmful consequence or cost associated with injury or property damage from a given hazard.
Severity
The simplest form of control of hierarchy includes:
Design
Guard
Warn
The fire service mitigation hierarchy refers to a preferred order of hazards control strategies:
Elimination Reduction Adaption Transfer Avoidance
If the risk management approach is effective, the department should see a decline in _______, accidents, and ______ overtime.
injuries
close calls
One weakness of the five step model is that there is no provisions for _____ _____-____.
acceptable risk-taking
The majority of the fire service-specific standards and regulations are written as result of a tragic event; therefore, the ISO can use them as basis to prevent similar tragedies from occurring:
Guiding Publications
The _____ is recognized for developing consensus standards, guides, and codes for a realm of the fire-related topics.
National Fire Protection Association (est. 1896)
OSHA is part of the US Department of Labor and its tasked with the creation and enforcement of workplace law. OSHA uses the ___ __ ___ ____ as the body of laws to improve workplace safety.
Code of Federal Regulation (CFR)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - is the safety and health research and educational arm of the federal government and is part of the ______ under the Department of Health and Human Services.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
A ____ is an enforceable rule of conduct that helps protect society.
Law
A___ ___ deals with rules of conduct in civil and criminal matters.
Statutory Law
________ ___ refers to the precedent established over time through the judicial process.
Case Law
A ________ typically outlines details and procedures that have the force of law issued by executive government authority.
Regulations
A ____ is a work of law established or adapted by a rule making authority.
Code
The term _______ can be apply to any set of rules, procedures, or professional measurements that are established by an authority.
Standard
A _____ is a publication that offers procedures, directions, or standard of care as a reasonable means to address a condition or situation. Does not have the impact of a law, but can be used to prove negligence.
Guide
What NFPA standard has become the “mother ship” of the fire department safety and health program ?
NFPA 1500 Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program
What NFPA standard defines the requirements, roles, responsibilities, functions, and authority of an ISO?
NFPA 1521 Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer Professional Requirements
What NFPA defines and describes the essential elements of an incident management system ?
NFPA 1561 Standard of Emergency Service
Incident Management System and Command Safety
A ______ law deals with rules of conduct in civil and criminal matters.
Statutory
Which agency is empowered to make judgements regarding cost-recovery for fire departments that have responded to a disaster?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
One of the most important outcomes from the NFFF’s and USFA’s Safety Summits has been the ____ initiatives.
16
The requirements, responsibilities, functions, and authorities for the ISO are described in what NFPA standard?
NFPA 1521
The ISO has the authority to intervene in the case of an imminent threat, after which, the ISO needs to:
inform the IC.
Standards are written using _____ language.
mandatory
One arm of NIST, the Fire Research Division, is a tremendous resource center that conducts testing and collects a vast amount of information on fire- and building-related subjects. T/F
True
What are the tools that help lawyers, judges, and juries weigh the circumstances and evidence presented?
Guiding Publications
__________ is part of the U.S. Department of Labor and is tasked with the creation and enforcement of workplace law.
OSHA
If an entity is not required to follow OHSA’s CFR, they are also not required to follow EPA regulations. T/F
False
Due to the cost, new Type IV construction is seen in:
resorts or churches
A _____ loads refers to the weight of the building itself and anything permanently attached to it
Dead load
An eccentric load is imposed:
off-center to another object.
A _______ load refers to any force or weight, other than the building itself, that a building must carry or absorb.
live
An ______ load is imposed through the centroid of another object.
axial
An _______ load is imposed off center to another object.
eccentric
A ____ load is imposed in a manner that causes another object to twist
torsional
What are the three types of force imposed on a load?
compression
tension
shear
Five steps to predict a collapse?
- Classify the buildings construction (type, era, use, size)
- Determining the structural involvement
(contents or structure) - Visualizing and tracing loads
- Evaluate time
- Predict and communicate the potential collapse
An Incident Commander should default to a defensive strategy for any fire in a building that is ______, ______, or structural alteration.
under construction
demolition
Temporary shoring, bracing, or framework used to support incomplete structural elements during building construction:
Falsework
2 x4 or 4x4 wood columns and beams
Diagonal braces that serve primary as a column but must absorb some beam force as well:
Raker
_________ the area that is exposed to trauma, debris, and/or thrust should building or part of a building collapse.
Collapse Zone
___________ the complete failure of a building to resist gravity.
general collapse
A beam that carries other beams:
girder
A beam that is supported in three or more places:
continous bean
A non-load-bearing wall that supports only itself and is just to keep the weather out
curtain wall
An event in which the building can accept the failure of a single component and still retain some strength:
partial collapse
A directive for crews to exit a building interior or roof in an orderly manner, bringing hoses and tools along:
precautionary withdrawal
A strict order for all crews to immediately escape from the interior or roof, leaving hoses and tools that can impede rapid retreat behind:
emergency evacuation
Smoke leaving a structure has four key attributes:
Volume
Velocity
Density
Color
