Incident Safety Officer Complete Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers | Verified 2024 Version

Ch 5. 1.What are three things that need to be acquired to front-load for the ISO function? - 1. NFPA 1021: standard on fire officer professional qualifications 2. Additional knowledge and skills 3. Certain attitude Ch 5. 2.Discuss the concept of mastery and it's benefit to the ISO. - Mastery: 90/90 rule - 90% objective 90% of the time. Ability to perform with a certain unconscious competence. ISO needs to address important issues with a wealth of knowledge. Ch 5. 3.How are efficiency and effectiveness different? - Effectiveness: doing the right things. Learning part. Efficiency: doing things right - performance part. Ch 5. 4.What is the essential difference between learning and performance. - Learning: is the aquisition of knowledge, skills Performance: demonstration of aquired knowlege and skills Ch 5. 5.Describe the relationship among knowledge, skill, and attitude. - Knowledge: bring knowledge into application without supervision. Recognize situations Skills: intellectual tasks such as hazard reduction, and problem solving. Determine, predict, implement Attitude: gain knowledge and skills to shape an attitude that supports the reduction of injury and death Ch 5. 6.To check your attitude, what three questions can be asked of yourself? - 1. What do I know about this? 2. How do I feel about it? 3. How should I handle it to show a concern for safety?Ch 6. 1.What are the three ways loads are imposed on materials? - 1. Axial load: on the beam 2. Eccentric load: middle of deck 3. Torsion load: sides of deck, take twisted torsion Ch 6. 2.List three types of forces created when loads are imposed on materials. - 1. Compression: push both sides on a beam 2. Tension: pulls on a structural member 3. Shear: load transferee to another structure member Ch 6. 3.What is the definition of a beam? - A structural element that delivers loads perpendicularly to it's imposed load is called a beam. Ch 6. 4.Explain the effects of fire on steel structural elements. - Cold drawn steel loses 55% at 800F Extruded steel loses 50% at 1100F At 1000F steel elongates 10 inches Ch 6. 5.How does a masonry wall achieve strength? - Compressive strength using motar. No tensil or shear strength. Ch 6. 6.List and define the five common types of building construction. - Type 1: Fire-Resistive, approved noncombustable, concrete encased steel, monolithic poured cement, steel spray on fire protection. Large multiple-story-hard to fight rely on no collapse. Type 2: Noncombustible, less rating-steel not coated makes for collapse. Warehouses, small arenas, newer churches. Building do not burn but heat causes collapse. Type 3: Ordinary, load bearing walls noncombustable masonry with wood floors, ceilings, structure members. Taxpayer, now strip malls. Spreaders-void spaces. Type 4: Heavy Timber, masonary exterior walls with 8"" wood laminated beams for structure, floor, roof. Warehouses, older churches, manufactoring. Type 5: Wood frame, new homes, small business, chain hotels built with wood.Ch 6. 7.What is a hybrid building? List several types. - Combine 2 types of construction. Expect rapid collapse due to low mass high surface to mass exposure of structural elements. Ch 6. 8.List in order, the five step analytical approach to predicting building collapse. - 1. Classify the construction type 2. Determine structural involvement