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55 Cards in this Set
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OSHA |
Division of the US Department of labor that enforce occupational safety regulations |
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Environmental protection agency |
Agency designed to protect the air water and soil from contamination |
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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response |
It’s clean up operations involving hazardous substances and emergency response operations for releases of hazardous substances |
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Awareness level |
Lowest level of training established by the NFPA for first responders at hazardous materials incidents |
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Operations level |
Level of training established by the NFPA allowing first responders to take defensive actions hazardous materials incidents |
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Dike |
Temporary barrier that contains or direct the flow of liquids |
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Divert |
Actions to control movement of a hazardous material to an area that will produce less harm |
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Unified command |
Shared command role in which all agencies with geographical are functional responsibility establish a common set of incident objectives and strategies |
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Incident action plan |
Written or unwritten plan for the disposition of an incident |
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National response framework |
Document that provides guidance on how communities states and government conduct all hazardous emergency response |
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Hazard and risk assessment |
Formal review of hazards and wrist that may be in countered by firefighters or first responders |
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Plug |
Patch to seal a small leak in a container |
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Defensive strategy |
Overall plan for incident control established by the incident commander that involves protection of exposures |
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Offensive strategy |
Overall plan for an exit control established by the incident commander and which responders take aggressive direct action |
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Non intervention strategies |
Strategy for handling Fire’s involving hazardous materials and was the fire is allowed to burn until all of fuel is consumed |
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Confinement |
The process of control the flow of a spell and capturing it at some specified location |
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Containment |
Active stopping the further release of the material from container |
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Toxic inhalation hazard |
Volatile liquid known to be a severe hazard to human health during transport |
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Initial isolation distance |
Distance within which all persons are considered for evaluation in all directions from hazardous material incident |
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Initial isolation zone |
Circular zone with a radius equivalent to the initial isolation distance within which persons may be exposed to dangerous concentrations up land of the source and expose to life-threatening concentrations downwind |
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Street clothes |
Clothing that is anything other than chemical protective clothing or structural firefighters protective clothing |
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Chemical protective clothing |
Clothing designer shield or isolate individuals from the chemical hazard that may be encountered during operations |
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Evacuation |
Control process of leaving her being removed from a potential hazardous location |
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Decontamination |
Process of removing a hazardous foreign substance from a person or area |
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Cross contamination |
Contamination of people equipment or the environment outside the hot zone without contacting the primary source of contamination |
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Protective action distance |
Down when distance from the hazardous materials incident within the protective actions should be implemented |
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Emergency breathing support |
Escape only respirator they provide sufficient self-contained breathing air to permit the wearer to safely exit the hazardous area |
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Permeation |
Process in which a chemical passes through protective material on the molecular level |
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Breakthrough time |
Time required for a chemical to permeate the material of a protective suit |
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Liquid splash protective clothing |
Chemical protective clothing design to protect against liquid splashes per the requirements of NFPA 1992 |
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Vapor protective clothing |
Gas tank chemical protective clothing design to meet NFPA 1991 |
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Encapsulating |
Completely enclosed or surrounded as in a capsule |
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Level a protection |
Highest level scan respiratory an eye protection that can be provided by PPE |
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Level B protection |
Personal protective equipment that provides the highest level of respiratory protection but a lesser level of skin protection |
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Level C protection |
Personal protective equipment that provides a lesser level of respiratory and skin protection than levels A and b |
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Level D protection |
Personal protective equipment that provides lowest level of respiratory and skin protection |
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Heat stress |
Combination of environmental and physical work factors that compose the heat load imposed on the body |
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Heat stroke |
Heat illness in which the bodies heat regulating mechanism fails |
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Heat exhaustion |
Heat illness caused by exposure to excessive heat |
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Heat cramps |
Heat illness resulting from prolonged exposure to high temperatures |
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Heat rash |
Condition that the valves from continuous exposure to heat and humid air |
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Trench foot |
**** condition resulting from prolonged exposure to damn conditions or the immersion of of water |
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Frostbite |
Local tissue damage caused by prolonged exposure to extreme cold |
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Hot zone |
Potentially hazardous area immediately surrounding the incident site |
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Warm zone |
Area between the hot and cold symptoms that usually contains a decontamination Corredor |
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Cold zone |
Safe area outside of the warm zone where equipment and personnel or not expected to become contaminated |
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Staging area |
Prearranged temporary strategic location away from the emergency seen were units assemble and wait until they are signed a position |
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Transportation area |
Location where the accident casualties are held after receiving medical carry our triage |
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Mutual aid |
Reciprocal assistance from one fire and emergency services agency to another during an emergency |
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Automatic aid |
Written agreement between two or more agencies to automatically dispatch predetermined resources to any fire or emergency reported in the geographic area covered by the agreement |
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Inverse square law |
States that the amount of radiation present is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of radiation |
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Self presenters |
People seeking medical attention who were not treated or decontaminate at the incident seen |
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Emergency decontamination |
The physical process of immediately reducing contamination of individuals with or without the formal establishment of a decontamination Corredor |
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Triage |
System use for sorting in class fine accident casualties determine the priority for medical treatment and transportation |
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Turbulence |
Irregular most of the atmosphere usually produce an air flows over comparatively uneven surface |
