Here to There
Creates an environment that encourages all individuals to report mistakes, followed by an assessment to identify the risks that created the error.
What is just culture?
A legal principle requiring individuals, particularly emergency vehicle operators, to exercise reasonable care and caution for the safety of others.
What is due regard?
Garment required by OSHA when operating on federally-funded roadways.
What is a high-visibilty/ safety vest?
This term encompasses specialties such as structural collapse, trench rescue, and wilderness rescue.
What is technical rescue?
First step in attempting to gain access through a car door.
What is try the door handle?
Performed at the begining of the shift to ensure all supplies and equipment are present and in working order.
What is the vehicle inspection?
These are required while riding in a vehicle unless under specific circumstances while actively engaged in duty.
What are seat belts?
When laying out road cones, this should be your orientation to traffic.
What is facing it?
Assessment of an incident scene from all directions intended to identify entrapped or ejected patients.
What is a 360-degree survey?
This is the process of removing the vehicle from around the patient.
What is disentanglement?
This information includes call location and call type.
What is dispatch data?
While these may be required for response to an emergency, they are rarely required for transport.
What are lights and sirens?
Vehicle positioning at the scene of a hazardous materials incident.
What is upwind and uphill?
Unless deployed or deactivated, these safety devices pose as risk to rescuers operating inside vehicles.
What are air bags?
This form of access does not require tools or other special equipment.
What is simple access?
The process of effectively using all resources available to reduce errors, increase safety, and improve performance.
What is crew resource management?
This form of travel with another emergency vehicle to a response or the hospital should be a last resort.
What is an escort?
The first arriving vehicle on a roadway incident should take this position.
What is create a barrier/ protect the scene?
This instruction should be given to vehicle occupants under downed powerlines.
What is remain in the vehicle?
Usually the easiest and least costly means of forced entry.
What is breaking a window?
This document is required to operate an ambulance.
What is a driver's license?
Most collisions in which ambulances are involved in occur here.
What are intersections?
Minimum distance the blocking vehicle should be from a roadway incident.
What is 100 ft?
These wooden or plastic blocks are used to stablize an unstable vehicle.
What is cribbing/ chocks?
The removal of a patient from entrapment, a dangerous situation, or a confined position, most commonly following a vehicle collision.
What is extrication?