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Health and safety officer (HSO) -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️The individual assigned and
authorized by the fire chief as the manager of the health and safety program.

Incident safety officer -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️A member of the command staff responsible
for the monitoring and assessing safety hazards or unsafe situations and for developing
measures to ensure personnel safety.

National Incident Management System (NIMS) -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️An incident
response system developed by the Department of Homeland Security.

National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS) -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️An
incident response system developed by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️A mental health disorder that
can develop in individuals who have experienced a terrifying ordeal that involved
physical harm or the threat of harm.

NFPA 1500 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️HSO requirements, duties and responsibilities

, NFPA 1561 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️ISO requirements, duties and responsibilities

NFPA 1521 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️HSO qualifications

NFPA 1521 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️ISO qualifications for fire department ISO's

NFPA 1026 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️ISO qualifications for NIMS safety officers

firefighter injuries, combined from all activities- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️slowly declining

percentage of FF LODDs due to non-cardiac, on scene causes- -ANSWER
✅✅✅❤️trending upward

number of injuries on the fire ground -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️declining, but not as fast as
the decline in the number of fires

ISOs responsibilities (MEDIC) M- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️monitoring incident conditions
and activities

ISOs responsibilities E- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️evaluating hazards and unsafe conditions

ISOs responsibilities D- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️Developing measures that promote safe
incident handling

ISOs responsibilities I- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️Intervening when an immediate or potential
threat exists

ISOs responsibilities C- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️Communicating urgent and advisory safety
messages that help prevent injuries or deaths

HSO role- -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️primarily an administrative or managerial position, the
ISO role is an incident command staff position

Williams-Steiger act of 1970 -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️established Occupational Safety and
Health Administration

NFPA standards that help guide the ISO are -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️NFPA 1561
(requirements, duties, responsibilities) NFPA 1521 (qualifications)

US fire service averages more than _____ LODDS annually -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️100

Fire service injuries annually, but declining -ANSWER ✅✅✅❤️69,000