Chapter 2: Firefighter Health and Safety
Questions with Verified Correct Answers
1. For firefighters, the goal is never to eliminate all risk, but rather to reduce
preventable deaths and injuries by reducing ___ risks.
unnecessary
2. Your department has a strong commitment to safety and to reduce/prevent
firefighter injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Who takes the lead on this?
Each firefighter
3. You are assigned as the department's health and safety officer. What should one of
the major functions of this role be?
After-incident reviews and research
4. What is the leading cause of death among firefighters?
Cardiac events
5. For firefighters that died in vehicle accidents, where or when did a majority of them
happen?
Returning from and responding to incidents
6. Although firefighting is an inherently dangerous activity, most firefighter injuries
and deaths are the result of ___ situations.
preventable
7. At the 2004 Firefighter Life Safety Summit, what was created to raise awareness to
firefighter life safety issues?
, 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives
8. Within any emergency or training event, what is the highest priority?
Safety
9. Which of these groups develops standards that help to standardize training courses,
apparatus, equipment, and operations?
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
10. You are working to build safety procedures within your department. The state you
work in is a non-plan OSHA state. Where would you look to find safety regulations that
are law?
Protection of the Environment Part 311, Worker Protection
11. You are working a residential structure fire. The fire is out and you are working the
overhaul phase. Who on the incident scene determines when you can take your self-
contained breathing apparatus off?
Safety officer
12. Which of these describes acting independently of a superior's orders or the fire
department's SOPs?
Freelancing
13. To keep you and your fellow firefighters safe on an incident scene and during
training, you need to avoid two things. What are they?
Sloppy practices and shortcuts
14. During training you are being taught how to use a chain saw. You have used one a
lot in other jobs and you let the instructor know this and request to be let out of this
Questions with Verified Correct Answers
1. For firefighters, the goal is never to eliminate all risk, but rather to reduce
preventable deaths and injuries by reducing ___ risks.
unnecessary
2. Your department has a strong commitment to safety and to reduce/prevent
firefighter injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Who takes the lead on this?
Each firefighter
3. You are assigned as the department's health and safety officer. What should one of
the major functions of this role be?
After-incident reviews and research
4. What is the leading cause of death among firefighters?
Cardiac events
5. For firefighters that died in vehicle accidents, where or when did a majority of them
happen?
Returning from and responding to incidents
6. Although firefighting is an inherently dangerous activity, most firefighter injuries
and deaths are the result of ___ situations.
preventable
7. At the 2004 Firefighter Life Safety Summit, what was created to raise awareness to
firefighter life safety issues?
, 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives
8. Within any emergency or training event, what is the highest priority?
Safety
9. Which of these groups develops standards that help to standardize training courses,
apparatus, equipment, and operations?
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
10. You are working to build safety procedures within your department. The state you
work in is a non-plan OSHA state. Where would you look to find safety regulations that
are law?
Protection of the Environment Part 311, Worker Protection
11. You are working a residential structure fire. The fire is out and you are working the
overhaul phase. Who on the incident scene determines when you can take your self-
contained breathing apparatus off?
Safety officer
12. Which of these describes acting independently of a superior's orders or the fire
department's SOPs?
Freelancing
13. To keep you and your fellow firefighters safe on an incident scene and during
training, you need to avoid two things. What are they?
Sloppy practices and shortcuts
14. During training you are being taught how to use a chain saw. You have used one a
lot in other jobs and you let the instructor know this and request to be let out of this
