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What are the three components of the Safety Triad?

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Procedures, Equipment, and Personnel

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What is a formal process?

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Defined in writing such as; SOP, SOG, department directives, and temporary memorandums

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What is a procedure?

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Strict directives that must be followed with little or no flexibility

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What is a guideline?

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Adaptable templates that allow flexibility in the application

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What is an informal process?

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A part of the departments routine but not written; OJT, new member training, day to day routine

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What are some qualities of a good SOP?

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Simple language
Clear Direction
Tested Technique
Easily interpretation
Applicability to many scenarios 
Specific to critical or life endangering points
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Define Training?

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The process of learning and applying knowledge and skills

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Define Education ?

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The process of developing one’s analytical ability using principles, concepts, and values

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What are three factors that affect personnel with the safety triad?

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Training
Health
Attitude

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What are the Five Steps of Risk Management ?

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Step 1:  Hazard Identification
Step 2: Hazard Evaluation 
Step 3: Hazard Prioritization
Step 4: Hazard Control
Step 5: Hazard Monitoring
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What is the meaning of Mitigation ?

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Overall strategy used to control a hazard or hazards

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What is a risk countermeasure ?

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Actions taken to accomplish mitigation; used to effect the hazard mitigation

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What is Mitigation Hierarchy?

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A preferred order of hazard control strategies;elimination, reduction, adaption, transfer, and avoidance

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A well-applied SOP improves _______ _____?

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departmental safety

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An SOP can become a training _______, a tool to minimize liability, and a tool to ______ members.

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outline

guide

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The practical application of SOP’s puts the _____ in the best place to suggest changes to SOP’s or even create new ones.

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ISO

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Failures to follow SOP’s should be addressed during _______ or safety committee meetings.

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post-incident analysis

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What component of the safety triad is the least arguable factor of the operational triad?

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equipment

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OSHA regulations. Know as the Code of _______ Regulations.

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Federal

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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.

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NFPA

application

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Many equipment manufactures use these agencies to show that their equipment meets or exceeds design and performance requirements. What agencies?

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NIOSH, ANSI, FM, and UL

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What is an example that in some cases equipment designed to improve safety can actually lead to greater risk taking?

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Firefighting Structural Gear

TPP - Thermal Protective Performance

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What are the 3 factors that must be addressed as part of the personnel leg of the safety triad?

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Acquired Training and education
The person’s physical and mental Health
The person’s general and current Attitude

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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.

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Training

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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 ```
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What helps shape an individual's values and attitude ?
Safety Education
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What continues to be the leading cause of firefighter LODD and contributor to injuries ?
Stress and overexertion
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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
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A departments ____ _____ is made up of the ideas, skills, and customs that are passed from one generation to another.
safety culture
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Risk can be simply defined as the chance of ______, injury, or ________.
damage | loss
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What is primary function of the ISO?
Identifying hazards (step 1)
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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
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_______ can be viewed as a harmful consequence or cost associated with injury or property damage from a given hazard.
Severity
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The simplest form of control of hierarchy includes:
Design Guard Warn
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The fire service mitigation hierarchy refers to a preferred order of hazards control strategies:
``` Elimination Reduction Adaption Transfer Avoidance ```
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If the risk management approach is effective, the department should see a decline in _______, accidents, and ______ overtime.
injuries | close calls
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One weakness of the five step model is that there is no provisions for _____ _____-____.
acceptable risk-taking
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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
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The _____ is recognized for developing consensus standards, guides, and codes for a realm of the fire-related topics.
National Fire Protection Association (est. 1896)
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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)
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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
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A ____ is an enforceable rule of conduct that helps protect society.
Law
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A___ ___ deals with rules of conduct in civil and criminal matters.
Statutory Law
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________ ___ refers to the precedent established over time through the judicial process.
Case Law
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A ________ typically outlines details and procedures that have the force of law issued by executive government authority.
Regulations
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A ____ is a work of law established or adapted by a rule making authority.
Code
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The term _______ can be apply to any set of rules, procedures, or professional measurements that are established by an authority.
Standard
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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
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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
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What NFPA standard defines the requirements, roles, responsibilities, functions, and authority of an ISO?
NFPA 1521 Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer Professional Requirements
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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
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A ______ law deals with rules of conduct in civil and criminal matters.
Statutory
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Which agency is empowered to make judgements regarding cost-recovery for fire departments that have responded to a disaster?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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One of the most important outcomes from the NFFF's and USFA's Safety Summits has been the ____ initiatives.
16
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The requirements, responsibilities, functions, and authorities for the ISO are described in what NFPA standard?
NFPA 1521
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The ISO has the authority to intervene in the case of an imminent threat, after which, the ISO needs to:
inform the IC.
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Standards are written using _____ language.
mandatory
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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
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What are the tools that help lawyers, judges, and juries weigh the circumstances and evidence presented?
Guiding Publications
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__________ is part of the U.S. Department of Labor and is tasked with the creation and enforcement of workplace law.
OSHA
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If an entity is not required to follow OHSA's CFR, they are also not required to follow EPA regulations. T/F
False
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Due to the cost, new Type IV construction is seen in:
resorts or churches
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A _____ loads refers to the weight of the building itself and anything permanently attached to it
Dead load
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An eccentric load is imposed:
off-center to another object.
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A _______ load refers to any force or weight, other than the building itself, that a building must carry or absorb.
live
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An ______ load is imposed through the centroid of another object.
axial
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An _______ load is imposed off center to another object.
eccentric
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A ____ load is imposed in a manner that causes another object to twist
torsional
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What are the three types of force imposed on a load?
compression tension shear
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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
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An Incident Commander should default to a defensive strategy for any fire in a building that is ______, ______, or structural alteration.
under construction | demolition
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Temporary shoring, bracing, or framework used to support incomplete structural elements during building construction:
Falsework | 2 x4 or 4x4 wood columns and beams
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Diagonal braces that serve primary as a column but must absorb some beam force as well:
Raker
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_________ the area that is exposed to trauma, debris, and/or thrust should building or part of a building collapse.
Collapse Zone
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___________ the complete failure of a building to resist gravity.
general collapse
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A beam that carries other beams:
girder
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A beam that is supported in three or more places:
continous bean
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A non-load-bearing wall that supports only itself and is just to keep the weather out
curtain wall
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An event in which the building can accept the failure of a single component and still retain some strength:
partial collapse
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A directive for crews to exit a building interior or roof in an orderly manner, bringing hoses and tools along:
precautionary withdrawal
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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
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Smoke leaving a structure has four key attributes:
Volume Velocity Density Color

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