PN342 Dynamic Risk Assessment Flashcards

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What are the three main types of risk assessment relevant to incidents and operational training activities?

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  • Generic risk assessments (GRA)
  • Locally produced risk assessments
  • Dynamic risk assessment (DRA)
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Whether to proceed with an activity is dependant upon the likely benefits to be gained. In a highly calculated manner, operational personnel will/may what?

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  • Will take some risk to save saveable lives;
  • May take some risk to save saveable property;
  • Will not take any risk to save lives or properties that are already lost.
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Define the safe person concept

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“The right person, doing the right job, with the right equipment, at the right time”

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The safe person concept:

All operational personnel must be able to…

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  • Identify hazards;
  • Evaluate risks;
  • Select SSoW;
  • Implement action to eliminate or control risk;
  • Evaluate how effective that action is.
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The process of DRA is completed by undertaking which five sequential steps?

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(a) Evaluation of the situation, task and persons at risk;
(b) Select SSoW;
(c) Assess the chosen systems of work;
(d) Introduce additional control measures; and
(e) Reassess systems of work (SSoW) and additional control measures.

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When creating a tactical plan or strategy ICs must consider which 7 things?

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  • A need to take any action at all considering the benefit to be gained
  • The speed and weight of attack
  • The hazards and risks that can be reasonably foreseen and assessed
  • The skills of the personnel and the equipment available to them;
  • The capabilities and limitations of personnel and equipment;
  • Whether all of the above fits a planned scenario or could be reasonably adapted to the circumstances; and
  • Implementing and maintaining a safe system of work (SSoW)
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Situations where the use of operational discretion may be appropriate include…

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(a) Rescue a saveable life in the circumstances where implementation of the full policy would lead to an unjustifiable delay, resulting in the potential for greater injury or lives being lost;
(b) Tackle a known small fire through a pre-emptive strike, where the adherence to policy would lead to delay and thereby create higher levels of risk for firefighters to extinguish a fully developed fire; and
(c) Where no action by the Authority may cause the public to place themselves at risk and therefore escalate the incident (e.g., child in a lake).

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Give an example of a priority message that must be sent where operational discretion is exercised.

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Where operational discretion is exercised a priority message describing the situation and actions being taken must be sent.

Example priority message: “From ….. at …… operational discretion in use, one firefighter entered canal to rescue child, TMO”.

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Who will be informed when an ops discretion message is sent?

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  • Monitoring officers
  • Operational Review Team (ORT)
  • A Senior Accident Investigator (SAI)
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What are the 2 possible outcomes following implementation of Operational Discretion?

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The actions were justifiable and reasonable as the situation was unforeseeable and extant policy/SOP was not in place to achieve the desired outcome; or,

The actions were unjustifiable as the situation was foreseeable and extant policy/SOP would have provided a SSoW to achieve the desired outcome.

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Topics to be discussed during post incident reviews (PRO, PRC) should include . . .

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  • The accuracy of the risk assessment;
  • The effectiveness of operational policies and equipment;
  • The success of the strategies or tactics applied;
  • The appropriateness of the strategies and tactics employed;
  • The level of knowledge and skills demonstrated by teams and individuals;
  • The effectiveness of SSoW;
  • The reasons why a modified system of work was successful;
  • Identification of unforeseen hazards or risks; and
  • Application of operational discretion - reasons for deviating from planned system of work.
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