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THIRA

Threat & Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

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THIRA 5-Step Process

1. Identify threats & hazards- What could happen in the community?


2. Give the threats & hazards context- Describe how a threat or hazard could happen, & when & where it could.


3. Examine core capabilities- What effect could each threat/hazard have on the jurisdiction's core capabilities (National Preparedness Goal).


4. Set capability targets- Set level of capability a community needs to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to & recover from risks.


5. Apply the results- Use capability targets to decide how to use resources from the community.

1. Identify Threats & Hazards

• Natural hazards


• Technological hazards


• Threats or human-caused hazards.


- Identify specific hazards, determine the threat they pose, & make an estimate of the portion of the population affected.

5 E's

1. Education


2. Enforcement


3. Engineering


4. Economic initiatives


5. Emergency response

Engineering

This component provides solutions to prevent the hazard or reduce the harm of the hazard once it occurs.


This component is primarily the responsibility of manufacturers, but usually mandated by federal, state or local laws & ordinances.

4 Categories of Life Safety Messages

1. Prevent


2. Protect


3. Prepare


4. Persuade

11 Keys to Engaging Adult Learners

• Make it meaningful


• Ask them what they want


• Let them See , Hear & Do


• Discuss more, lecture less


• Present, apply & repeat as necessary


• Connect with their experiences


• Be a real person


• Chunks of information at a time


• More Dos, fewer Don'ts


• Expect success


• Say thank you

Juvenile Fire Setters (under 18)

• Account for 54% of arson arrests.


• Second leading cause of fatalities in residential fires.

4 Categories of Juvenile Fire Setters

1. Curiosity/experimentation


2. Troubled/crisis


3. Delinquent/criminal


4. Pathological/emotionally disturbed.

Model Code

Consensus based standards or codes established to provide uniformity in regulations in regard to construction, design & use.


When adopted by local jurisdictions, codes become enforceable laws.

2 Main Aspects of Code Enforcement

1. Inspection


2. Investigation

NFPA 1031

Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Inspector & Plans Examiner

Investigations

• Provide data about types & causes of fires.


• Law enforcement tools that attempt to determine responsibility for intentionally set fires.


• Gather data that will help make products, processes & materials safer

Residential Fire Deaths

Account for more than 92% of all fire deaths.

Leading Causes of Home Accidents

• Falls- Over 6,000/year.


• Poisonings- Over 5,000/year


• Fires- Over 3,000/year


• Airway obstructions- Over 1,000/year


• Drownings- Over 800/year

3 Highest At-Risk Groups

1. Children under 5


2. Elderly over 65


3. Disabled

Message Organization

• Known to unknown


• Simple to complex


• Whole-part-whole: Overview to topic subdivisions, to topic summary.


• Step-by-step

2 Model Code Organizations in the U.S.

1. International Code Council (ICC).


2. National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).