Rehabilitation - Allowing firefighters to rest, rehydrate, and recover during incident.
Hazard - Condition, substance, or device that can directly cause injury or loss; the source of a risk.
Who suffers physical pain and emotional stress? - Individual Firefighter
Crowd Control - limiting the access of nonemergency personnel to the emergency scene.
Training Evolution - Operation of fire and emergency services training covering one or several
aspects of firefighting.
Mitigate - To make less harsh or intense; to alleviate.
Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health(IDLH) - Description of any atmosphere that poses an
immediate hazard to life, irreversible, debilitating effects on health.
Stressor - Any agent, condition, or experience that causes stress.
Employee Assistance Program(EAP) - Program to help employees and their families with work or
personnel problems.
Risk Management Plan - Written plan that analyzes the exposure to hazards, implements
appropriate risk management techniques, and establishes criteria for monitoring their effectiveness.
Standard Of Care - Level of care that all persons should receive; care that does not meet this
standard is considered inadequate.
Acute - Sharp or severe, having a rapid onset and short duration.