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Summary NFPA Essentials 7 1001 Study Booklet

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NFPA Essential 7 - 1001 Study
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, Introduction to the Fire Service and Firefighter Safety

1001 Level 1: Chapter 1 Pg 10-54

Key Terms

Acute: Sharp or severe; having a rapid onset and short duration.

All-Hazard Concept: Provides a coordinated approach to a wide variety of incidents; all responders
use a similar, coordinated approach with a common set of authorities, protections, and resources.

Atypically Stressful Event: Term used in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards to
describe incidents that have a likelihood of causing critical incident stress.

Battalion: Fire department organizational subdivision consisting of several fire service companies in a
designated geographic area. A battalion is usually the first organizational level above individual
companies or stations.

Body Substance Isolation (BSI): Comprehensive method of infection control in which every patient
is assumed to be infected; personal protective equipment is worn to prevent exposure to bodily fluids
and blood-borne and airborne pathogens.

Carcinogen: Cancer-producing substance.

Chain of Command: Order of rank and authority in the fire and emergency services.

Chronic: Long-term and recurring.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Term for several diseases that result in
obstructive problems in the airways.

Code: A collection of rules and regulations that has been enacted by law in a particular jurisdiction.
Codes typically address a single subject area; examples include a mechanical, electrical, building, or
fire code.

Code Enforcement: Process of enforcing a body of law aimed at reducing fire and life-safety hazards
as well as mandating the proper installation and maintenance of building/structure fire and life-safety
features to provide adequate community fire prevention.

Cold Zone: Safe area outside of the warm zone where equipment and personnel are not expected to
become contaminated and special protective clothing is not required the Incident Command Post and
other support functions are typically located in this zone

Community Risk Reduction (CRR): The fire department's or other agency's identification and
prioritization of risks to the community followed by the integrated application of resources to improve
public safety through minimizing the probability of occurrence and/or the impact of unfortunate events

Company: Basic fire fighting organizational unit consisting of firefighters and apparatus; headed by a
company officer.

Culture: The shared assumptions, beliefs, and values of a group or organization.

Generator: Portable device for generating auxiliary electrical power; generators are powered by
gasoline or diesel engines and typically have 110- and/or 220-volt capacity outlets.

Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI): Device designed to protect against electrical shock; when
grounding occurs, the device opens a circuit to shut off the flow of electricity.

Ground Gradient: Electrical field that radiates outward from where the current enters the ground; its
intensity dissipates rapidly as distance increases from the point of entry.

,Hazard: Condition, substance, or device that can directly cause injury or loss; the source of a risk.

Hot Zone: Potentially hazardous area immediately surrounding the incident site; requires appropriate
protective clothing and equipment and other safety precautions for entry.

Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH): Description of any atmosphere that poses an
immediate hazard to life or produces immediate irreversible, debilitating effects on health.

Incident Command System (ICS): Standardized approach to incident management that facilitates
in-traction between cooperating agencies; adaptable to incidents of any size or type.

Incident Commander (IC): Person in charge of the incident command system and responsible for the
management of all incident operations during an emergency.

Intrinsically Safe: Describes equipment that is approved for use in flammable atmospheres; must be
incapable of releasing enough electrical energy to ignite the flammable atmosphere

Inverter: Step-up transformer that converts a vehicle's 12 - or 24-volt DC current into 110 - 0 220-volt
AC current.

Line Personnel: Personnel who provide emergency services to external customers (the public).
Mitigate - To cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe, intense or painful; to
alleviate.

Personnel: Accountability System Method for identifying which emergency responders are working
on an incident scene.

Plans Review: Process of reviewing building plans and specifications to determine the safety
characteristics of a proposed building; generally done before permission is granted to begin
construction.

Policy: Organizational principle that is developed and adopted as a basis for decision-making.

Post Incident Analysis: Overview and critique of an incident by members of all responding agencies,
including dispatchers. Typically takes place within two weeks of the incident. In the training
environment it may be used to evaluate student and instructor performance during a training
evolution.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Disorder caused when persons have been exposed to a
traumatic event in which they have experienced, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or
events that involve actual death, threatened death, serious injury, or the threat of physical injury to self
or others.

Power Take-Off (PTO) System: Mechanism that allows a vehicle engine to power equipment such as
a pump, winch, or portable tool; it is typically attached to the transmission.

Procedure: Outline of the steps that must be performed in order to properly follow an organizational
policy. Procedures help an organization to ensure that it consistently approaches a task in the correct
way, in order to accomplish a specific objective.

Rehabilitation: Allowing firefighters or rescuers to rest, rehydrate, and recover during an incident;
also refers to a station at an incident where personnel can rest, " rehydrate, and recover.

Response District: Geographical area to which a particular apparatus is assigned to be first due on a
fire or other emergency incident.

Risk: Likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard; exposure to a hazard. The potential for failure or
loss.

, Risk-Management Plan: Written plan that identifies and analyzes the exposure to hazards, selects
appropriate risk management techniques to handle exposures, implements those techniques, and
monitors the results.

Situational Awareness: Perception of the surrounding environment and the ability to anticipate future
events.

Span of Control: Maximum number of subordinates that that one individual can effectively supervise;
ranges from three to seven individuals or functions, with five generally established as optimum.

Staff Personnel: Personnel who provide administrative and logistical support to line units (internal
customers).

Standard: A set of principles, protocols, or procedures that explain how to do something or provide a
set of minimum standards to be followed. Adhering to a standard is not required by law, although
standards may be incorporated in codes, which are legally enforceable.

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP): Formal methods or rules to guide the performance of routine
functions or emergency operations. Procedures are typically written in a handbook, so that all
firefighters can consult and become familiar with them.

Traffic Control Zone: Operational zone established on or near a roadway for the rerouting of traffic
and protection of civilians and responders; may include a hot, warm, and cold zone depending on the
incident.

Training Evolution: Operation of fire and emergency services training covering one or several
aspects of fire fighting.

Unity of Command: Organizational principle in which workers report to only one supervisor in order
to eliminate conflicting orders.

Warm Zone: Area between the hot and cold zones that usually contains the decontamination corridor
at hazardous materials incidents.

Wildland/Urban Interface: Line, area, or zone where an undeveloped wildland area meets a human
development area

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