Rfd Academy 42 Ppe

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PPE

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Personal protective equipment

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PPC

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Personal protective clothing

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PASS

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Personal alarm safety system

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What is PPE

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General term for the equipment worn by fire and emergency services responders.

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NFPA 1500

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Standard on Fire Department Occupational safety and health program. All equipment must be designed and constructed based on NFPA standards.

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NFPA 1981

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Standard on Open Circuit SCBA for emergency services. Also includes the design and construction requirements for SCBA and PASS devices.

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NFPA 1982

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Standard on PASS

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Structural Fire Fighting

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Activities required for rescue, fire suppression, and property conservation in structures, vessels, vehicles, and similar types of properties.

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Proximity Firefighting

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Activities required for rescue, fire suppression, and property conservation at fires that produce high radiant, conductive or convection heat. Aka aircraft, hazardous material transport, and storage tank fires.

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NFPA 1971

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Standard of protective ensembles for structural and proximity firefighting.

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True or false? PPC components must be compatible with each other to provide the level of protection intended by NFPA?

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True.

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Structural personal protective clothing covers all portions of your ______ when reaching, bending or moving?

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Skin.

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Helmet

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Headgear worn by FF that provide protection from falling objects, side blows, elevated temperatures and heated water.

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How to wear a helmet?

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Place helmet on your head, secure the chin strap under your chin and tighten it, and fold the ear flaps down to cover your ears and neck.

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True or false? Eye injuries are some of the most common injuries at emergency incidents?

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True.

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What % does safety glasses or goggles protect against eye injuries?

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85%

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What does NFPA 1500 say about wearing goggles or other appropriate primary eye protection?

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Must be worn when participating in operations where protection from flying particles or chemicals splashes is necessary.

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ANSI Standard Z87.1

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Prescription safety glasses must have frames and lenses that meet this code. Occupational and educational personal eye and face protection.

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Protective hoods

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Hood designed to protect the FF ears, neck, and face from heat and debris. Typically made of nomex, kevlar, or PBI.

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Protective Coat

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Coat worn during Firefighting, rescue, and extrication operations.

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3 components of the coat

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Outer shell, moister barrier and thermal barrier.

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Components built into the coat

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Retroreflective trim, wristlets, collars, closure system, drag rescue device (drd)

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Protective Trousers

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Trousers worn to protect the lower torso and legs during emergency operations. Made of the same fabric and material as the coat

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Protective gloves

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Protective clothing designed to protect the hands

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Firefighting boots

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Protective footwear meeting the design requirements of NFPA, OSHA, CAN/CSA Z195-02

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Firefighting boots

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Protective footwear meeting the design requirements of NFPA, OSHA, CAN/CSA Z195-02

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Hearing protection

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Device that limits noise-induced hearing loss when firefighters are exposed to extremely loud enviroments

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What decibel is the maximum exposure limit in the USA?

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90

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What is a PASS device?

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Electronic lack of motion sensor that sounds a loud alarm when a firefighter becomes motionless. It can also be manually activated.

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How long do you have to wait before your PASS alarm sounds in the first stage?

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30 seconds or when the firefighter presses the emergency button.

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How loud (in decibels) does the PASS device have to be and how long does it need to sound off for?

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95 decibels and must go off for 1 continuous hour.

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How many settings does a PASS alarm have and what are they?

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3. They are off, alarm and sensing.

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NFPA 1977

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Standard on protective clothing and equipment for wildland firefighting

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Fire shelter

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Fire resistant aluminized fabric covers that protect the firefighter from convected and radiant heat

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What should you wear while operating on an incident in a roadway?

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A traffic vest, with retroreflective trim that goes over your PPE or as soon as the situation has stabilized.

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Emergency medical protective clothing may be either ____ or ____ use garments.

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Single or multiple

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NFPA 1999

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Standard on protective clothing for emergency medical operations.

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NFPA 1951

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Standard on protective ensembles for technical rescue incidents.

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SAR

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Supplied air respirators

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NFPA 1994

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Standard on protective ensembles for first responders to CBRN Terrorism incidents

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CBRN

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Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear

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NFPA 1975

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Standard on station/work uniforms for emergency services.

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NFPA 1851

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Standard on selection, care, and maintenance of protective ensembles for structural and proximity firefighting

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NFPA 1851

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Standard on selection, care, and maintenance of protective ensembles for structural and proximity firefighting

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What kind of contamination will reduce the fire resistance of your PPE?

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Hydrocarbon

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NFPA 1851 defines 4 types of cleaning. What are they?

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Routine cleaning, advance cleaning, specialized cleaning, contract cleaning.

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Routine cleaning of PPC

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Does not require that clothing be OOS. you can brush loose debris with a broom or soft bristle brush, use a gentle spray of water to rinse of debris and soil

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Advanced cleaning for PPC

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A washing machine dedicated to cleaning PPC that is designed to handle heavy loads should be used.

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Specialized cleaning

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Required when clothing is contaminated with hazardous materials or body fluids that cannot be removed by routine or advance cleaning.

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Contract cleaning

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Specialized cleaning performed by the manufacturer. Typically removes accumulated grime or contaminants.

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PPE is designed to create a protective barrier between you and your work environment.

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However this barrier can isolate you, preventing you from being aware of environmental changes and making you over confident of your own safety

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Respiratory Hazards

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Exposure to conditions that create a hazard to the respiratory system.

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Respiratory Hazards

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Exposure to conditions that create a hazard to the respiratory system.

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Respiratory Hazards

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Exposure to conditions that create a hazard to the respiratory system.

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Common respiratory hazards

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O2 deficiency, elevated temperatures, particulate contamination, gases and vapors, airborne pathogens

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True or false. Is wearing appropriate respiratory protection the most effective way to protect your health?

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True.

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Oxygen deficient atomsphere

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Atmosphere containing less than the normal 19.5 % oxygen. At least 16% oxygen is needed to produce flame or sustain human life.

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O2 at 19.5%

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Normal conditions

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O2 at 15% to 19%

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Ability to perform strenuous work decreases. Coordination is impaired.

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O2 at 10% to 12%

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Dizziness, headache, rapid fatigue.

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O2 at 8% to 10%

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Mental failure, unconsciousness, ashen face, blueness of lips, nausea and vomiting

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O2 at 8%

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Exposure for 8 minutes is fatal. Exposure for 4 to 5 minutes can be treated

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O2 at 6% and lower

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Coma occurs in 40 seconds followed by death.

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Hypoxia

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Potentially fatal condition caused by lack of O2

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Pulmonary edema

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Accumulation of fluids in the lung

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Asphyxiation

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Fatal condition caused by severe O2 deficiency and an excess of CO and or other gases in the blood.

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Particulate

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Very small particle of solid material, such as dust that is suspended in the atmosphere

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_____ is the most common cause of oxygen deficient atmospheres.

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Combustion

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APR

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Air purifying respirator, respirator that removes contaminants by passing ambient air through a filter, cartridge or canister.

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PAPR

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Powered air purifying respirator, motorized respirator that uses a filter to clean surrounding air then delivers it to the wearer to breath.

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Gas

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Compressible substance with no specific volume, that tends to assume the shape of the container.

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Vapor

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Gaseous form of a substance that is normally in a solid or liquid state at room temperature and pressure. Formed from evaporation from a liquid or sublimation solid.

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What fire gases and vapors are responsible for the majority of fire related deaths?

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Carbon monoxide and Hydrogen Cyanide.

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Hydrogen Cyanide is ___ time more toxic than carbon monoxide?

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35

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Airborne pathogen

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Disease causing microorganisms that are suspended in the air.

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Airborne pathogen

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Disease causing microorganisms that are suspended in the air.

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High efficiency particulate air filter (HEPA)

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Respirator filter that is certified to remove at least 99.97 % of monodisperse particles of .3 micrometers in diameter.

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There are two categories of respiratory protection equipment.

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Atmosphere supplying respirators and air purifying respirators

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Open circuit SCBA

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SCBA that allows exhaled air to be discharged or vented into the atmosphere.

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Closed circuit SCBA

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SCBA that recycles exhaled air, removes CO2 and restores compressed, chemical, or liquid O2

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Does a open circuit SCBA use compress air or O2?

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Air. A closed circuit SCBA uses compressed O2.

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What are some common air cylinders made out of?

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Steel, aluminum wrapped in fiberglass, aluminum, or a Kevlar carbon composite material.

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What are some common air cylinders made out of?

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Steel, aluminum wrapped in fiberglass, aluminum, or a Kevlar carbon composite material.

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Qualitative for test

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Respirator fit test that measures the wearers response to a test agent, such as irritant smoke or odorous vapor. If the wearer detects the agent through taste or smell, the fit test has failed.

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Qualitative fit test

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Respirator fit test that measures the wearers response to a test agent, such as irritant smoke or odorous vapor. If the wearer detects the agent through taste or smell, the fit test has failed.

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Quantitative fit test

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Fit test in which instruments measure the amount of test agent that has leaked into the respirator from the atmosphere. If the leakage is above a pre selected amount the fit test has failed.

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ESTI

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End of service time indicator

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What does donning mean?

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To put on

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What does doffing mean?

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To take off

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NFPA 1901

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Standard for automotive fire apparatus, requires SCBA to be held in place by a mechanical latching device.

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NFPA 1852

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Frequency of SCBA inspections

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Nonemergency exit indicators

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The situation is stabilized, there is a change in operational strategy, it is necessary to replace an air cylinder or the IC orders a nonemergency withdrawal or the assignment is completed.

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Emergency exit indicators

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Activation of the SCBA low pressure alarm, SCBA failure, withdrawal orders issued by the IC or Safety officer, presence of APR/PAPR breakthrough symptoms, change in oxygen level, change in temperature. Pages 313 and 314.

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Permissible exposure limit

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Legal term for the max amount of chemical substance or other hazard that an employee can be exposed to

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Search line

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Nonload bearing rope that is anchored to a safe, exterior location and attached to a firefighter during search operations.