(Incident Safety Officer) Chapter 8

Question 1

A hospital is an example of what type of property?
A. Valued property
B. Community property
C. Expensive property
D. Medical property

Answer 1

A. Valued property
A Valued property whose loss will cause harm to the community

Question 2

NFPA standards specifically address risk mangement concepts related to the handling of emergency operations are all of the following except?
A. NFPA 1500
B. NFPA 1521
C. NFPA 1561
D. NFPA1403

Answer 2

D. NFPA 1403

Training evolutions NFPA 1403

Question 3

Learning from the mistake of others is an example of what?
A. Vicarious Learning
B. Watching
C. Experience Learning
D. Time Learning

Answer 3

A. Vicarious Learning

Question 4

One of the most glaring proofs that we need work in risk management is?
A. Fire related injuries
B. Fire related rescues
C. Fire related near misses
D. Firefighter Fatality trends

Answer 4

D. Firefighter Fatality trends

Question 5

Is it better to be arbitrarily aggressive or Intellectually aggressive?

Answer 5

Intellectually aggressive
By being intelectually aggressive requires being able to recognize preditable danger and taking steps to reduce reisk taking by our fellow responders

Question 6

Insufficient Communication, Fatigue and stress, Task Overload, Task underload, Group mind-set and biases, “press on regardless” philosophy and degrading operating conditions are factors that reduce________
A. Hindsight
B. Foresight
C. Situational awareness
D. Uncounsciousness

Answer 6

C. Situational Awareness

Question 7

Steward Rose’s Risk-Versus-Benefit Evauation has three main points what are they?
A. Time, Place, Event
B. Value, Time, Size
C. Who, What, When, why
D. Time, Value, Where

Answer 7

B. Value, Time, Size
Value: people, buildings
Time: How much time to fight the fire
Size: What amount of water needed to extinguish the fire

Question 8

ISO’s Reading-risk Approach is?
A. Collect Information, Analyze, Judge risk
B. Read smoke, rush in, adjust outcome
C. Read, analyze, go
D. All of the above

Answer 8

A. Collect Information, Analyze, Judge risk
Collect Info: Read building/smoke
Analyze: Define the principle hazard, Opportunity time, Ahead/behind, what is being gained
Judge: Are we in the risk taking values established by department, Are we doing all we can to continually reduce risk