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20 Cards in this Set
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Chapter 2
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Safety and Health
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Line of Duty Death
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firefighter or emergency responder death resulting from the performance of FD duties
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Consensus standard
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Rules, principles or measures that are established through agreement of members of the standard setting organization
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Risk management plan
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written plan that identifies and analyzes the exposures to hazards and includes selection of appropriate risk management techniques to handle exposures
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Safety Policy
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Written policy that is designed to promote safety to department embers
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Health and safety officer
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Manager of the health and safety program
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Communicable disease
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Disease that is transmissible from one person to another
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PASS
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Electronic lack of motion sensor that goes off when the FF stops moving
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SCBA
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Supplies a breathable atmosphere that is either carried in or generated by the apparatus
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IDLH
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immediately dangerous to life and health atmosphere
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Supplies air respirator
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An atmosphere-supplying respirator for which the source of breathing air is not designed to be carried by the user
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REHAB
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Area at scene of incident where personnel can rest rehydrate and recover
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Post Incident analysis
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General overview and critique of the incident by members of all responding agencies
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Safety Program
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Sets standards, policies, procedures and precautions to safely purchase operate and maintain the dept equipment
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Blood-borne pathogens
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pathogenic microorganisms that are present in the human blood and can cause disease in humans
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Employee Assistance program
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programs provided to the employees and their family to aid in solving work or personnel problems
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Defusing
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informal discussion with incident responders conducted after the incident has been terminated
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Live Burn, burn exercises
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Training exercise that involve the use of an unconfirmed open flame or fire in a structure or other combustibles to provide a controlled burning environment
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Burn Building
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Training structure designed to contain live fires for the purpose of fire suppression training
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Evolution
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operation of fire service training or suppression covering one or several aspects of fire fighting
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