Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What's the NFPA for confined space rescue? - ✔✔NFPA 1670
USAR Disciplines cover what? - ✔✔Structural collapse
Confined soace rescue
Vehicle/ Machinery Rescue
Water Search and Rescue
Wilderness Search and Rescue
Trench and Excavation Rescue
Awareness Level Knowledge, skills and abilities? - ✔✔Recognize the problem
Identify resource needs
Site and scene control
Recognize and ID CSR Hazards
Perform non entry rescue
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, Operations level knowledge, skills and abilities? - ✔✔Size up of CSR Emergencies
PPE for rescuers
Air monitoring
Perform entry type rescues
-space is clear and unobstructed
-victim can be seen/ 2 FF can easily enter
-basic victim and packaging
Technician knowledge, skills and abilities? - ✔✔Specialized equipment ID all care
hazards
Advanced retrieval
Unseen victim/ single rescuer entry
Planned/ organized
Niosh Study 1980-89 - ✔✔670 work place fatalities
Bureau of Labor study 1997-2002 - ✔✔458 work place fatalities.
Average deaths at a work place per year - ✔✔92
What makes up 60% of all confined space deaths? - ✔✔Would be rescuers associated
with secondary entries.
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