AIRPORT MASTER FIREFIGHTER EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A.
The Four SMS components
✔✔Safety Policy
Safety Assurance
Safety Risk management
Safety Promotion
What is the primary role of an Airport Security Coordinator?
✔✔This individual is designated to be the primary contact for the federal
government for security issues at the airport
Access Control and Alarm Monitoring System (ACAMS)
✔✔At most commercial service airports, the computerized system is
known to the TSA as the __ and is addressed under §1542.207(a); is not
intended to control the flow of passengers; instead, the purpose is to
prevent passengers from accessing airside areas used by authorized
personnel.
Natural Barriers
✔✔Physical obstacles created by nature. They prevent people from getting
through to a place. For example: mountains, deserts, oceans, seas.
Physical barriers
✔✔consists of walls, suck as terminal building, and fences, such as the
airport perimeter fence
,electronic barrier
✔✔can consist of the airport surface detection radar being monitored by
security personnel to detect the presence of unauthorized personnel.
Access Point
✔✔consists of doors or gates, such as leading to the airfield or vehicle
access gates.
Part 1542.207(a)
✔✔is essentially a computerized access control system, whether a card
reader, some other form of reader(such as Proximity) or electronic key
system that meets the requirements of the aforementioned list.
Part 154.207(b)
✔✔allows alternate forms of access control provided that alternative
provides an equal or greater level of security than would be provided by a
computerized access control system.
crisis communication plan
✔✔The process of anticipating and preparing for threats that have the
potential to damage an organization's reputation with important
constituents and influence the organization's survival.
10 C's of good crisis communications
✔✔Be cooperative; Provide control: Demonstrate caring and concern;
Demonstrate Competence;Be Credible;Be Clear; Be Concise; Keep Current;
Act with Calm
,Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act (1996)
✔✔requires the NTSB to coordinate the disaster response resources of
federal, state, local, and Volunteer agencies, such as the American Red
Cross and Salvation Army
Airport Master Plan
✔✔is a comprehensive study of an airport and usually describes the short,
medium, and long term development plan to meet future aviation demand.
The goal of the Airport Master Plan?
✔✔is to provide a framework to guide future airport development that is
cost effective and satisfies the need of the airport, the market, and the
community, while balancing environmental and socioeconomic impacts.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
✔✔A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of
all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
Storm water discharge
✔✔often represents the most prolific source of water pollution at airports
Four types of storm water applications
✔✔general, individual, multi sector, and construction.
Airports with over 50,000 operations a year are required to develop what
kind of plan for water?
✔✔Storm Water Prevention Plan
, National Response Center
✔✔Must be notified of spill that exceeds reportable amounts
✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must
provide these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to
know act
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil shipper, vessel
owner, or vessel operator that discharges oil into navigable waters or onto
an adjoining shore may be liable for clean-up costs, as well as damages
for harm to natural resources, private property, and local economies. It
also created an oil clean-up and economic compensation fund and
required oil tankers using U.S. ports to be double hulled by the year 2011.
Water Quality Act
✔✔Amended the Clean Water Act by addressing storm water pollution
issues - requires industrial storm water discharges and municipal sewage
discharge facilities to acquire permits.
SARA Title III
✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must
provide these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to
know act
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil shipper, vessel
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A.
The Four SMS components
✔✔Safety Policy
Safety Assurance
Safety Risk management
Safety Promotion
What is the primary role of an Airport Security Coordinator?
✔✔This individual is designated to be the primary contact for the federal
government for security issues at the airport
Access Control and Alarm Monitoring System (ACAMS)
✔✔At most commercial service airports, the computerized system is
known to the TSA as the __ and is addressed under §1542.207(a); is not
intended to control the flow of passengers; instead, the purpose is to
prevent passengers from accessing airside areas used by authorized
personnel.
Natural Barriers
✔✔Physical obstacles created by nature. They prevent people from getting
through to a place. For example: mountains, deserts, oceans, seas.
Physical barriers
✔✔consists of walls, suck as terminal building, and fences, such as the
airport perimeter fence
,electronic barrier
✔✔can consist of the airport surface detection radar being monitored by
security personnel to detect the presence of unauthorized personnel.
Access Point
✔✔consists of doors or gates, such as leading to the airfield or vehicle
access gates.
Part 1542.207(a)
✔✔is essentially a computerized access control system, whether a card
reader, some other form of reader(such as Proximity) or electronic key
system that meets the requirements of the aforementioned list.
Part 154.207(b)
✔✔allows alternate forms of access control provided that alternative
provides an equal or greater level of security than would be provided by a
computerized access control system.
crisis communication plan
✔✔The process of anticipating and preparing for threats that have the
potential to damage an organization's reputation with important
constituents and influence the organization's survival.
10 C's of good crisis communications
✔✔Be cooperative; Provide control: Demonstrate caring and concern;
Demonstrate Competence;Be Credible;Be Clear; Be Concise; Keep Current;
Act with Calm
,Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act (1996)
✔✔requires the NTSB to coordinate the disaster response resources of
federal, state, local, and Volunteer agencies, such as the American Red
Cross and Salvation Army
Airport Master Plan
✔✔is a comprehensive study of an airport and usually describes the short,
medium, and long term development plan to meet future aviation demand.
The goal of the Airport Master Plan?
✔✔is to provide a framework to guide future airport development that is
cost effective and satisfies the need of the airport, the market, and the
community, while balancing environmental and socioeconomic impacts.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
✔✔A 1969 U.S. federal act that mandates an environmental assessment of
all projects involving federal money or federal permits.
Storm water discharge
✔✔often represents the most prolific source of water pollution at airports
Four types of storm water applications
✔✔general, individual, multi sector, and construction.
Airports with over 50,000 operations a year are required to develop what
kind of plan for water?
✔✔Storm Water Prevention Plan
, National Response Center
✔✔Must be notified of spill that exceeds reportable amounts
✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must
provide these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to
know act
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil shipper, vessel
owner, or vessel operator that discharges oil into navigable waters or onto
an adjoining shore may be liable for clean-up costs, as well as damages
for harm to natural resources, private property, and local economies. It
also created an oil clean-up and economic compensation fund and
required oil tankers using U.S. ports to be double hulled by the year 2011.
Water Quality Act
✔✔Amended the Clean Water Act by addressing storm water pollution
issues - requires industrial storm water discharges and municipal sewage
discharge facilities to acquire permits.
SARA Title III
✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must
provide these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to
know act
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil shipper, vessel
