Incident Safety Officer Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
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Incident Safety Officer Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
Chapter 1
Preparing the Incident Safety Officer
All of the following are considered to be contributing factors to LODDs except:
modern designs of apparatus.
In the 1970s, where was the FIRESCOPE program develope...
Incident Safety Officer Exam Questions With
100% Correct Answers 2024/2025
Chapter 1
Preparing the Incident Safety Officer
All of the following are considered to be contributing factors to LODDs except:
modern designs of apparatus.
In the 1970s, where was the FIRESCOPE program developed and used for multiagency incidents?
The West Coast
In the MEDIC acronym, the D stands for:
Develop.
In what year was Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5, Management of Domestic Incidents,
signed?
2004
Most line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) are:
stress (cardiac) related.
The division of the safety officer role was written into which NFPA standard?
NFPA 1521
The HSO role is primarily:
an administrative or managerial position.
The National Response Framework (NRF) was recently renamed from:
National Response Plan (NRP).
The number of injuries on the fireground is declining:
but not as quickly as the number of fires.
The workers' compensation experience modifier is typically based on a _____-year loss experience.
3
What organization conducts LODD examinations of specific incidents to assist fire departments and
the fire service in developing processes and procedures to prevent further LODD or injury
occurrences?
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Which NFPA standard currently sets the SO qualifications for NIMS safety officers?
NFPA 1026
,Which NFPA standard lists the SO requirements, duties, and responsibilities?
NFPA 1561
Who is responsible for assigning the Type 1 and Type 2 incident management team (IMT)
designations?
The National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC)
Whose role is it to focus on scene-specific operations?
The incident safety officer (ISO)
Chapter 2
Safety Concepts
True or False: The appointment of an ISO does not absolve other firefighters or fire officers from the
responsibility to have situational awareness and to act in a safe manner.
True
_________ is the process of developing one's analytical ability using principles, concepts, and values.
Education
_________ is the process of learning and applying knowledge and skills.
Training
__________ are thought to be more flexible, and therefore more usable, by line officers and incident
commanders (ICs).
Standard operating guidelines
A(n) _________ process is a process or operation that is part of a department's routine but is not
written out.
informal
All of the following are common, widely practiced concepts in risk reduction industries except:
the hazard mitigation model.
All of the following are factors in the Operational Safety Triad except:
policies.
All of the following are factors to be addressed in the personnel aspect of the Operational Safety Triad
except:
observational skills.
Before a hazard can be evaluated, it needs to be:
identified.
, The definition of a well-written SOP is:
firefighters follow it.
The department's safety _________ is made up of the ideas, skills, and customs that are passed from
one "generation" to another.
culture
The first step in developing a formal SOP is establishing:
an administrative process to create, edit, alter, or delete established processes.
The primary function of an ISO is to:
identify hazards.
What is the process for determining which procedures need to be written first?
Either of these is correct.
- Look at external influences and determine which areas affect the department most by not having a
related SOP
- Conduct a needs assessment and flag the areas in which line firefighters and officers need guidance
When did the issue of responders' mental health start gaining attention with formal and informal
critical incident stress management (CISM) programs?
During the 1980s
True or False: In some cases, equipment designed to improve safety can actually lead to greater risk-
taking.
True
Chapter 3
Guiding Laws, Regulations and Standards
How many established groups are involved in creating guiding publications?
Hundreds, if not thousands
Chapter 8 of NFPA 1500 is essential information, and its title is:
Emergency Operations
In NFPA 1500, Chapter 8, the first three sections are Incident Management, Communications, and:
Crew Resource Management (CRM).
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is under which cabinet-level
department?
Department of Health and Human Services
One legal principle that has a long history of minimizing fire department and firefighter liability is:
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