IFSTA COMPANY OFFICER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔___ is the process of identifying and analyzing the exposure to hazards, selecting
appropriate techniques to handle exposures, implementing chosen techniques and
monitoring the results of those techniques. - ✔✔risk management
✔✔The overall risk management plan should have three distinctive sections: - ✔✔-
Community risk management
-Organizational risk management
-Operational risk management
✔✔Provides the company officer with known risk risks in the community to which the
responders may be exposed. - ✔✔Community risk management
✔✔Evaluate risks and hazards that can affect the organization and provides control
measures to reduce the frequency, severity, and probability of a negative event. -
✔✔Organizational risk management
✔✔Assess risks and hazards, emergency responders face while performing operations,
including how to evaluate risk on the scene of incidents. - ✔✔Operational risk
management
✔✔Company officers can implement control measures aimed at reducing the likelihood
of accidents or to mitigate severity of incidents at both the ___ and ___ levels -
✔✔organizational, operational
✔✔Control measures can be divided into the following categories: - ✔✔-Administrative
controls
-Engineering controls
-Personal protection
✔✔The traditional approach that safety professionals use for hazard control has been
the Three E's of Safety model: - ✔✔Engineering, education and enforcement.
✔✔An example of operation risk management contains a five step process that
maintains a continuous loop in order to evaluate the most current risks. This five step
process is: - ✔✔-Situational awareness
-Hazard assessment
-Hazard control
-Decision point
-Evaluate
✔✔Risk factors for firefighter mental illness are: - ✔✔-Sleep deprivation
,-Witnessing traumatic events
-Loss of a close relationship
-Knowing others who have died by suicide
-Heavy alcohol or drug use
-Major physical illness or injury
-Isolation or lack of social support
✔✔Warning signs for firefighter mental illness are: - ✔✔-Sudden withdrawal from social
contact
-Increasingly reckless behavior
-Having a suicide plan (time, place, method)
-Persistent feeling of hopelessness
-Mood swings/change in behavior
✔✔Regarding accident scene control involving firefighters, the officer in charge of the
incident ensures that the accident scene is secured, and that all equipment, clothing, or
vehicles are... - ✔✔... left in place.
✔✔Regarding accident scene control involving firefighters, if conditions require that
vehicles be moved an attempt should be made to... - ✔✔...photograph or at least sketch
the location of each vehicle.
✔✔When a unit member experiences a job related injury, or illness, the first duty of a
company officer is to... - ✔✔...ensure prompt medical treatment for the individual.
✔✔NFPA 1581 - ✔✔Standard on Fire Department Infection Control Program
✔✔Company officers should consider factors that may be relevant to an investigation as
soon as... - ✔✔... they are aware of the incident.
✔✔Absorption rates increase 400% for every blank degree rise in temperature. Areas of
high absorption rates include the... - ✔✔5, ... groin, jaw, forehead, and back.
✔✔In conducting an investigation, company officers collect basic information about the
participants, events or incident. The investigation should provide the following
information: - ✔✔-General information
-Employee characteristics
-Environmental information
-Apparatus/equipment information
✔✔Company officers/incident commanders should ___ and ensure that rehab policies
and procedures are followed. - ✔✔set the example
, ✔✔Unplanned, uncontrolled event (or sequence of events) resulting from unsafe acts
and/or occupational conditions; can result in injury, death or property damage. Typically
caused by persons who are either unaware or uninformed of potential hazards, ignorant
of safety policies, or fail to follow safety procedures. - ✔✔Accident
✔✔Cancer producing substance - ✔✔Carcinogen
✔✔Condition, substance or device that can directly cause injury or loss; the source of a
risk. - ✔✔Hazard
✔✔Allowing firefighters or rescuers to rest, rehydrate, and recover during an incident;
also refers to a station at an incident where personnel can rest, rehydrate, and recover.
- ✔✔Rehabilitation
✔✔1.). Likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard; exposure to a hazard. The potential
for failure or loss. 2.). Estimated affect that a hazard would have on people, services,
facilities, and structures in a community; likelihood of a hazard event, resulting in an
adverse condition that causes injury or damage. Often expressed as high, moderate or
a low or in terms of potential monetary losses associated with the intensity of the
hazard. - ✔✔Risk
✔✔Analyzing exposure to hazards, implementing appropriate risk management
techniques, and monitoring the results. - ✔✔Risk management
✔✔The goal of company or unit level training is to maintain and reinforce ___, ___, and
___ that each unit member has upon completion of formal entry level training. -
✔✔knowledge, skills, and abilities
✔✔Company level training should provide the opportunity to develop mastery of those
skills, two integrate ___ into the unit and to improve teamwork. - ✔✔new company
members
✔✔Company officers must also possess good ___ and ___ to create a team. -
✔✔leadership skills, enthusiasm
✔✔During company level training, the company officer assumes the role of ___ and
company members become the ___. - ✔✔instructor, students
✔✔Four step method of instruction: - ✔✔-Preparation
-Presentation
-Application
-Evaluation
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✔✔___ is the process of identifying and analyzing the exposure to hazards, selecting
appropriate techniques to handle exposures, implementing chosen techniques and
monitoring the results of those techniques. - ✔✔risk management
✔✔The overall risk management plan should have three distinctive sections: - ✔✔-
Community risk management
-Organizational risk management
-Operational risk management
✔✔Provides the company officer with known risk risks in the community to which the
responders may be exposed. - ✔✔Community risk management
✔✔Evaluate risks and hazards that can affect the organization and provides control
measures to reduce the frequency, severity, and probability of a negative event. -
✔✔Organizational risk management
✔✔Assess risks and hazards, emergency responders face while performing operations,
including how to evaluate risk on the scene of incidents. - ✔✔Operational risk
management
✔✔Company officers can implement control measures aimed at reducing the likelihood
of accidents or to mitigate severity of incidents at both the ___ and ___ levels -
✔✔organizational, operational
✔✔Control measures can be divided into the following categories: - ✔✔-Administrative
controls
-Engineering controls
-Personal protection
✔✔The traditional approach that safety professionals use for hazard control has been
the Three E's of Safety model: - ✔✔Engineering, education and enforcement.
✔✔An example of operation risk management contains a five step process that
maintains a continuous loop in order to evaluate the most current risks. This five step
process is: - ✔✔-Situational awareness
-Hazard assessment
-Hazard control
-Decision point
-Evaluate
✔✔Risk factors for firefighter mental illness are: - ✔✔-Sleep deprivation
,-Witnessing traumatic events
-Loss of a close relationship
-Knowing others who have died by suicide
-Heavy alcohol or drug use
-Major physical illness or injury
-Isolation or lack of social support
✔✔Warning signs for firefighter mental illness are: - ✔✔-Sudden withdrawal from social
contact
-Increasingly reckless behavior
-Having a suicide plan (time, place, method)
-Persistent feeling of hopelessness
-Mood swings/change in behavior
✔✔Regarding accident scene control involving firefighters, the officer in charge of the
incident ensures that the accident scene is secured, and that all equipment, clothing, or
vehicles are... - ✔✔... left in place.
✔✔Regarding accident scene control involving firefighters, if conditions require that
vehicles be moved an attempt should be made to... - ✔✔...photograph or at least sketch
the location of each vehicle.
✔✔When a unit member experiences a job related injury, or illness, the first duty of a
company officer is to... - ✔✔...ensure prompt medical treatment for the individual.
✔✔NFPA 1581 - ✔✔Standard on Fire Department Infection Control Program
✔✔Company officers should consider factors that may be relevant to an investigation as
soon as... - ✔✔... they are aware of the incident.
✔✔Absorption rates increase 400% for every blank degree rise in temperature. Areas of
high absorption rates include the... - ✔✔5, ... groin, jaw, forehead, and back.
✔✔In conducting an investigation, company officers collect basic information about the
participants, events or incident. The investigation should provide the following
information: - ✔✔-General information
-Employee characteristics
-Environmental information
-Apparatus/equipment information
✔✔Company officers/incident commanders should ___ and ensure that rehab policies
and procedures are followed. - ✔✔set the example
, ✔✔Unplanned, uncontrolled event (or sequence of events) resulting from unsafe acts
and/or occupational conditions; can result in injury, death or property damage. Typically
caused by persons who are either unaware or uninformed of potential hazards, ignorant
of safety policies, or fail to follow safety procedures. - ✔✔Accident
✔✔Cancer producing substance - ✔✔Carcinogen
✔✔Condition, substance or device that can directly cause injury or loss; the source of a
risk. - ✔✔Hazard
✔✔Allowing firefighters or rescuers to rest, rehydrate, and recover during an incident;
also refers to a station at an incident where personnel can rest, rehydrate, and recover.
- ✔✔Rehabilitation
✔✔1.). Likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard; exposure to a hazard. The potential
for failure or loss. 2.). Estimated affect that a hazard would have on people, services,
facilities, and structures in a community; likelihood of a hazard event, resulting in an
adverse condition that causes injury or damage. Often expressed as high, moderate or
a low or in terms of potential monetary losses associated with the intensity of the
hazard. - ✔✔Risk
✔✔Analyzing exposure to hazards, implementing appropriate risk management
techniques, and monitoring the results. - ✔✔Risk management
✔✔The goal of company or unit level training is to maintain and reinforce ___, ___, and
___ that each unit member has upon completion of formal entry level training. -
✔✔knowledge, skills, and abilities
✔✔Company level training should provide the opportunity to develop mastery of those
skills, two integrate ___ into the unit and to improve teamwork. - ✔✔new company
members
✔✔Company officers must also possess good ___ and ___ to create a team. -
✔✔leadership skills, enthusiasm
✔✔During company level training, the company officer assumes the role of ___ and
company members become the ___. - ✔✔instructor, students
✔✔Four step method of instruction: - ✔✔-Preparation
-Presentation
-Application
-Evaluation
