Unit 5 Quiz: Hazards and Human Factors on the Fireline | S-130 Firefighter Training (Online Component) 2008 v2

1. Safety means being secure from danger or harm. Identify TWO resources you can consult to review crucial checklists and standards.
• Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG)
• Fireline Handbook
  
  
2.  Controlling [known hazards] is one way to stay safe.
   
   
3. Identify THREE foundational principles of situational awareness.
• Gathering information by observation and communication
• The foundation of all the decision making
• An ongoing cycle
  
  
4.  Identify TWO reasons you need to maintain your situational awareness.
• You cannot depend entirely on your supervisor to see everything out there.
• Individual responsibility for personal safety begins from the first fire assignment on.
  
  
5.  When working in burned-over areas, you can be sure to identify snags, holes, rocks, and materials still burning if you remember to always
• look up, look down, and look around.
  
  
6.  Identify THREE responsibilities of a good communicator.
• Clarify any unclear information.
• Ask questions.
• Repeat instructions back to your supervisor.
  
  
7. All of the following are barriers to good communication, EXCEPT
• repeating instructions to make sure the message is clear.
  
  
8.  Many hazards you can control, many others you can avoid. You should be able to directly control
•  subjective hazards.
  
  
9.  Panic is dangerous and contagious! When the warning is signaled of an approaching fire, identify a personal survival technique that might save your life.
• Know the locations of escape routes and safety zones.
  
  
10.  Identify THREE benefits to a tool with a sharp blade.
• Cuts more effectively than a dull one
• Allows you to use short, sharp cutting strokes
• Reduces the need for you to raise a tool above your head
  
   
11.  The incident commander (IC) has stopped firing operations because it has become too intense for crews to control. Firing operations may resume when
• intensity diminishes and crews regain control.
  
   
12.  Before starting backfiring or burning out operations
• clearly identify escape routes and safety zones.
  
   
13.  When working in burned-over areas, always look up, look down, and look around. Identify FOUR things you should be looking for.
• Snags
• Holes
• Rocks
• Materials still burning
  
   
14.  Do you have the risk management process down? Match each risk management step with a typical task belonging to each step.
• Identify known hazards → Hazard assessment
• Take notice that the fire's location has changed → Evaluation
• Alert supervisor if you have a safety concern → Decision points
• Have lookout in place → Controlling hazards