Ch. 2: Safety Concepts

Question 1

To become an ISO that can make a difference, what must fire officers build?

Answer 1

A foundation of understanding (Theory)

Question 2

ISOs must also be well grounded in recognized safety concepts (theory), which gives them what?

Answer 2

Uncommon sense

Question 3

What is defined as the ability of the ISO to ask two questions: What is the worst that can happen here? What is the probability of it happening?

Answer 3

Uncommon sense

Question 4

What are the components that the ISO needs to look at that makes up the operational environment to get a handle on safety concepts?

Answer 4

Procedures, equipment, and personnel [PEP]

Question 5

What are the items that all play a role in defining safety in operations?

Answer 5

Personnel, equipment, and procedures [PEP]

Question 6

What are strict processes with little or no flexibility?

Answer 6

Procedures

Question 7

What are adaptable templates that give wide application flexibility?

Answer 7

Guidelines

Question 8

What can increase the overall safety of a department?

Answer 8

Both formal and informal processes

Question 9

What is the first obvious step in the development of a formal SOP/SOG?

Answer 9

Establishing an administrative process to create, edit, alter, or delete established processes.

Question 10

What makes a good SOP?

Answer 10

Firefighters follow it!

Question 11

What does a well applied SOP improve?

Answer 11

Departmental safety

Question 12

What must the ISO do if there is a failure to follow a SOP presents a potential or imminent danger?

Answer 12

Intervene to prevent an injury

Question 13

What helps, but it is arguably the least important factor in the operational triad of procedure, equipment, and personnel?

Answer 13

Equipment

Question 14

What relative value is the insulative quality of structural gear given known as?

Answer 14

Thermal protective performance (TPP)

Question 15

What are the three factors that contribute to a person’s ability to act safely?

Answer 15

Health, attitude and training [HAT]

Question 16

What does a successful safety program usually work in tandem with?

Answer 16

A successful training program

Question 17

What continues to lead in causes of firefighter duty-deaths and is a significant contributor in injuries?

Answer 17

Stress or overexertion

Question 18

The safety and well-being of firefighters increase with their ________?

Answer 18

health

Question 19

The recent attention to what topic did fire departments become more concerned with the mental health of firefighters?

Answer 19

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

Question 20

What is the hardest to address of all the people factors affecting safety?

Answer 20

Attitude

Question 21

The department’s ________ _________ is made up of the ideas, skills, and customs that are passed from one “generation” to another.

Answer 21

safety culture

Question 22

What changes are slow and often emotional, and they require lots of buy-in?

Answer 22

Attitude

Question 23

What is the chance of damage, injury, or loss?

Answer 23

Risk

Question 24

What is the process of minimizing the chance, degree, or probability of damage, loss, or injury?

Answer 24

Risk management

Question 25

What is the five-step process that most risk managers use called?

Answer 25

Classic risk management

Question 26

What are the five-steps of risk management model that is used by risk managers worldwide?

Answer 26

[IEPCM] 1. Identify hazards 2. Evaluate hazards 3. Prioritize hazards 4. Control hazards 5. Monitor hazards

Question 27

What is the primary function of an incident safety officer?

Answer 27

Hazard identification

Question 28

What step is a value established for a hazard in terms of frequency?

Answer 28

Hazard evaluation

Question 29

What is known as the probability that an injurious event can happen, and it can best be described as low, moderate, or high based on the number of times that a particular hazard is present or the number of times an injury results from the hazard?

Answer 29

Frequency

Question 30

What term can be viewed as harmful consequence or cost associated with injury or damage from a given hazard?

Answer 30

Severity

Question 31

What classic division of fireground strategies is a good example of hazard prioritization?

Answer 31

Offensive and defensive

Question 32

What are included as hazard control methods?

Answer 32

Avoidance, hazard transfer, and hazard adaptation

Question 33

What is the control method most often employed on an incident scene?

Answer 33

Hazard adaptation

Question 34

All adaptation methods are designed to make the hazard less severe for the exposed firefighter. This is called ________.

Answer 34

mitigation

Question 35

What is the ability for the ISO to revisit hazards and continually weigh the operations and the environment to see if a hazard is truly being mitigated?

Answer 35

Cyclic thinking

Question 36

What the ISO doing when they are always monitoring hazard, even after hazard countermeasures are implemented?

Answer 36

Cyclic thinking

Question 37

Just as fire is dynamic, so must ISOs be _________ in their evaluation of risk.

Answer 37

cyclic

Question 38

What is known as the process for addressing hazards?

Answer 38

The five-step risk management model

Question 39

What is the hallmark of a good ISO - and any decision maker for that matter?

Answer 39

The ability to continually reassess risk versus benefit

Question 40

To be effective, the ISO must have a solid foundation in general safety concepts and ______ ________.

Answer 40

risk management

Question 41

Which organization will often outline the equipment required for a given process to be accomplished?

Answer 41

OSHA

Question 42

Which is NOT something that is considered to be part of | the operational environment

Answer 42

Regulations

Question 43

Which have more flexibility in their application?

Answer 43

guidelines

Question 44

What is made up of the department's ideas, skills and | customs that are passed from one "generation" to the next?

Answer 44

culture

Question 45

What can be looked at the determine if the department | lacks needed equipment?

Answer 45

scope of offered services

Question 46

Which is the greatest benefit of a well applied SOP?

Answer 46

improved departmental safety

Question 47

Which type of event does the thermal protective | performance rating measure against?

Answer 47

flash fire

Question 48

What is the ability to answer the questions, "What is the | worst that can happen here? of it happening?

Answer 48

uncommon sense

Question 49

Which hazard control method is most often employed on the incident scene?

Answer 49

adaptation

Question 50

Which training subject does the firefighter only need a | proficient degree of understanding?

Answer 50

ICS

Question 51

What is NOT a quality in a good SOP?

Answer 51

complex language

Question 52

What must a good ISO be able to continually reassess?

Answer 52

risk versus benefit

Question 53

Which is given a high priority when writing SOP's using | external influences?

Answer 53

PPE

Question 54

Which part of risk management is the primary function of | the ISO?

Answer 54

hazard identification

Question 55

What should the ISO do if there is an imminent threat when the SOPs are not being following during an incident?

Answer 55

intervene immediately

Question 56

What is the probability that an injurious event can happen | and is described in terms of low, moderate or high?

Answer 56

frequency

Question 57

Which is considered to be a piece of station equipment?

Answer 57

exhaust removal system

Question 58

Which hazard classification (frequency/severity) is NOT | included in priority category 1?

Answer 58

high/low

Question 59

What are always in writing?

Answer 59

formal processes

Question 60

Which is NOT considered a way to support the firefighter's mental health?

Answer 60

Excluding family members from departmental events

Question 61

What make up the structure for all activity at an | incident?

Answer 61

procedures

Question 62

What is the first step in the development of a formal SOP?

Answer 62

establishing administrative process

Question 63

What does a successful safety program usually work in | tandem with?

Answer 63

Successful training program

Question 64

What is NOT a characteristic of the apparatus?

Answer 64

Open cab

Question 65

Which is considered the least important factor in the | operational environment?

Answer 65

equipment

Question 66

Which does NOT describe a specific quality of an effective training program?

Answer 66

Identification of leadership structure

Question 67

How often should all firefighters and line officers have a | health screening?

Answer 67

annually

Question 68

What does a good SOP start with?

Answer 68

good writing

Question 69

What makes a good SOP?

Answer 69

Firefighters follow it

Question 70

How many hazard classes are generally used when | prioritizing hazards?

Answer 70

3 - high, moderate, low

Question 71

Which of the people factors affecting firefighter safety | is the most difficult to deal with and address?

Answer 71

attitude

Question 72

Which is given a high priority when writing SOPs using external influences

Answer 72

personal protective equipment

Question 73

What is NOT considered part of effective personal protective equipment for the firefighter?

Answer 73

two-way radios for everyone

Question 74

Which is considered the least important factor in the operational environment?

Answer 74

equipment

Question 75

Which is NOT a characteristic of the apparatus?

Answer 75

open cab

Question 76

What is the third step in risk management?

Answer 76

prioritize hazards

Question 77

Which hazard classification (frequency/severity) is NOT included in priority category 1?

Answer 77

High/Low

Question 78

Which part of risk management is the primary function of the ISO?

Answer 78

hazard identification

Question 79

Which is the greatest benefit of a well applied SOP?

Answer 79

improved departmental safety

Question 80

What make up the structure for all activity at an incident?

Answer 80

procedures

Question 81

Which hazard control method is most often used on the incident scene?

Answer 81

adaptation

Question 82

What is the probability that an injurious event can happen and is described in terms of low, moderate, or high?

Answer 82

frequency

Question 83

Which type of event does the thermal protective performance rating measure against?

Answer 83

flash fire

Question 84

Which is NOT a quality in a good SOP?

Answer 84

complex language

Question 85

What is the fourth step in risk management?

Answer 85

control hazards

Question 86

Which of the following classic countermeasures is NOT correctly stated?

Answer 86

accelerate the creation of the hazard

Question 87

Which of the following are always in writing?

Answer 87

formal processes

Question 88

What is the first step in risk management?

Answer 88

identify hazards

Question 89

What can be looked at to determine if the department lacks needed equipment?

Answer 89

scope of offered services

Question 90

What should the ISO if there is an imminent threat when the SOPs are not being followed during an incident?

Answer 90

intervene immediately

Question 91

What does a successful safety program usually work in tandem with?

Answer 91

successful training program

Question 92

Which have more flexibility in their application?

Answer 92

guidelines

Question 93

What makes a good SOP?

Answer 93

firefighters follow it

Question 94

What is the first step in the development of a formal SOP?

Answer 94

establishing administrative process

Question 95

What does a good SOP start with?

Answer 95

good writing

Question 96

Which does NOT describe a specific quality of an effective training program?

Answer 96

identification of leadership structure

Question 97

How many hazard classes are generally used when prioritizing hazards?

Answer 97

3

Question 98

Which organization will often outline the equipment required for a given process to be accomplished?

Answer 98

OSHA

Question 99

Which training subject does the firefighter only need a proficient degree of understanding?

Answer 99

ICS

Question 100

What is the ability to answer the questions, "what is the worst that can happen here? or of it happening?"

Answer 100

uncommon sense

Question 101

What must a good ISO be able to continually reassess?

Answer 101

risk versus benefit

Question 102

What is the fifth step in risk management?

Answer 102

monitor hazards

Question 103

Which is NOT something that is considered to be part of the operational environment?

Answer 103

regulations

Question 104

Which adjective is used to describe an ISO knowledge objective?

Answer 104

list

Question 105

Which is considered to be a piece of station equipment?

Answer 105

exhaust removal system

Question 106

Which is NOT considered a way to support the firefighters mental health?

Answer 106

excluding family members from departmental events

Question 107

What is the second step in risk management?

Answer 107

evaluate hazards

Question 108

How often should all firefighters and line officers have a health screening?

Answer 108

annually