3. Fire Fighter Safety And Survival Flashcards
A continuous process of identifying hazards and risks and taking steps to eliminate or reduce them in the rapidly changing circumstances of an operational incident
Dynamic risk assessment
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Program that provides better teamwork, improves communication and problem-solving, promotes team member input while preserving legal authority, and provides for proactive accident prevention.
Crew resource management
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Involves the leader insuring mission safety, fostering an environment of respectful communication, establishing tasks with clearly defined goals, and considering crew input.
Authority
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Involves the leader demonstrating skills and techniques, demonstrating professional standards and best practices, verbalizing errors and limitations promptly, recommending solutions, monitoring and assessing crew performance, and motivating crew members.
Mentoring
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Involves the leader identifying core conflict issues, encouraging diplomatic questioning of the actions/decisions of others, acknowledging differences of opinion, and accepting constructive criticism.
Conflict resolution
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Involves the leader evaluating risk versus game, identifying objectives, developing strategies and tactics to meet the identified objectives, implemented an action plan, expecting the unexpected, evaluating the effectiveness of the action plan, and devising alternative strategies.
Mission analysis
P64
A timely and accurate initial size-up, followed by a succession of subsequent assessments of the fire ground situation.
Dynamic risk assessment
P74
_____ is how the problem at hand is defined.
Size up
P74
Knowing what is going on in your immediate surroundings
Situational awareness
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Compliance with department SOP‘s can be accomplished in two ways:
Voluntary compliance
Enforcement
P79
Enforcement of departmental policies regarding fire fighter safety and survival on the fire ground also has two aspects:
Education
Coercive action
P79
