ISO (Ch 2)

Question 1

3 Elements that affect safety

Answer 1

• Procedures
• Equipment
• Personnell

Question 2

Procedures: types

Answer 2

• Formal (SOP/SOG, standard evolutions)
• Informal (putting hood across boots so it’s donned first, grease pen on guages)

Question 3

SOG topic list

Answer 3

• Use of PPE & SCBA
• Care of PPE & SCBA
• Driving emergent
• Apparatus maintenance
• Accident/injury procedures & reporting
• Accountability
• Emergency withdrawl
• Use of ICS
• EMS standard of care
• Infection control
• Employee right-to-know (FF hazards)

Question 4

Good SOG qualities

Answer 4

• Simple language
• Clear direction
• Tested technique
• Easy interpretation
• Applicability to many scenarios
• Specific only on critical or life-endangering points

Benefits:

• Can become training outline, tool to minimize liability, tool to guide members, improves safety.

Question 5

Least important factor of triad

Answer 5

Equipment

Question 6

7 items for writing equipment guidelines

Answer 6

• Selection
• Use
• Cleaning and decon
• Storage
• Inspection
• Repairs
• Criteria for retirement

Question 7

3 factors contributing to a person acting safely

Answer 7

• Training
• Health
• Attitude

Question 8

A successful safety program is usually synonymous with a successful _________ program

Answer 8

Training

Question 9

Essential training subject

Answer 9

• PPE
• Accountability
• Company formation and team continuity
• Fire behavior and phenomena
• ICS
• Apparatus driving
• Fitness and rehab

Question 10

Of the people factors this is the hardest to address

Answer 10

Attitude

Question 11

Factors that affect attitude

Answer 11

• Dept’s safety culture
• Dept’s FF death or injury history
• Example set by line officers and veterans

Question 12

5 steps of risk management

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Classifying Fire

Answer 13

• Stable/predictable
• Rapidly changing/predictable
• Unpredeictable

Question 14

Key building construction topics

Answer 14

• Imposition and resistance of loads
• Characteristics of building materials
• Building assembly components
• Construction classification
• Effects of fire on buildings

Question 15

7 steps to analyze a building’s collapse potential

Answer 15

1. Classify type of construction
2. Detertmine the degree of fire involvement
3. Visualize load imposition and resistance
4. Evaluate time as a factor
5. Determine the weak link
6. Predict the collapse sequence
7. Proclaim collapse zones

Question 16

3 stratagies to mitigate hazards

Answer 16

• Awareness (warning)
• Accomodation (roof ladders, more people)
• Acclimation (fitness, flexibility, crew rotation, rehab)

Question 17

Human performance factors

Answer 17

• Thermal stress
• Dehydration
• Energy depletion

Question 18

Ideal mix: protein/fat/carbs

Answer 18

30%/30%/40%

Question 19

3 ergonomic factors

Answer 19

• Physical environment
• Relationship of worker to environment
• Task