Culture Change
Using this every time the rig moves can decrease LODDs by as much as 25%.
What is your seatbelt?
The weighing of the facts by determining the advantages and disadvantages of a certain activity.
What is risk management?
Energy in motion is known as _______.
What is kinetic energy?
This is a requirement to obtain federal firefighting grants.
What is NFIRS reporting?
What is 3rd worst?
Fire chiefs encounter this when they attempt to change how the fire department does things.
What is resistance?
What is Crew Resource Management?
The 4 Es of eliminating unsafe acts are education, engineering, environment, and __________.
What is enforcement?
This type of grant is used to start a program that the department will maintain after startup.
What is a seed grant?
These should be used to determine a local community's fire and life safety problems.
What are local statistics?
Rather than being reactive, the fire service is trying to become more ________.
What is proactive?
This activity involves tracking the locations and activities of all personnel on an emergency scene.
What is personnel accountability?
This hostile fire event can occur more than twice as quickly in the modern fire environment than in the legacy environment.
What is flashover?
This grant can be used to hire career firefighters, or to help recruit and retain volunteer firefighters.
What is a SAFER Grant?
This activity seeks to safe lives and property by keeping fires from happening, or reducing their impact when they do happen.
What is fire prevention?
This management style seeks to discover the root cause of accidents and injuries, instead of seeking blame.
What is no-fault management?
This concept involves each firefighter being responsible for his or her own safety.
What is personal accountability?
This Life Safety Initiative from Everyone Goes Home emphasizes the empowerment of all employees to stop unsafe acts.
What is Initiative 4?
This well-funded grant is seldom applied for by fire departments.
What is the Fire Prevention & Safety Grant?
All education programs seek to change a person's ________.
What is behavior?
Successful change in the fire department involves ____.
Who is "everyone"?
Risk management is specifically outlined in this NFPA standard.
What is NFPA 1500?
This concept was described by Chief Alan Brunacini as "doing something stupid for so long that it stops looking stupid".
What is normalization of deviance?
This is the most common federal grant to help fire departments.
What is the Assistance to Firefighters Grant?
This event kills more Americans every year than all natural disasters combined.
What are structure fires?