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Title: Maryland Fire Service Health and Safety Consensus Standard


1
Maryland Fire Service Health and Safety
Consensus Standard
  • so our brothers and sisters will be provided
    every degree of safety in the delivery of
    emergency services
  • Final Draft - January 2001

2
Whats the problem?
  • In 1999--
  • 112 firefighters died in the line of duty
  • Increase of 21 from 1998
  • 300,000 firefighters sustained injuries in the
    line of duty

3
56 died on the fireground
  • 32 volunteers
  • 22 paid
  • 1 prison inmate
  • 1 federal forestry
  • 21 heart attacks
  • 13 asphyxiated
  • 8 burned
  • 6 internal trauma
  • 4 crushed
  • 3 electrocuted
  • 1 heat stroke

4
32 died responding/returning
  • 27 volunteers
  • 4 paid
  • 1 federal forestry
  • 15 heart attacks
  • 11 collisions or rollovers
  • 2 strokes
  • 2 aneurysms
  • 1 drowned
  • 1 fell from jump seat

5
10 died in non-fire emergencies
  • 8 heart attacks--
  • 3 at motor vehicle accidents
  • 2 at false alarms volunteers
  • 1 medical call
  • 1 in trench rescue
  • 1 after dog attack
  • 2 struck and killed at the scene of motor vehicle
    crashes

6
10 died in non-emergency related on duty
activities
  • 7 in normal station activities--
  • 5 heart attacks
  • 2 embolisms
  • 1 heart attack on vehicle maintenance detail
  • 1 hit by a backhoe he was repairing
  • 1 explosion of fireworks waste

7
4 died during training
  • 1 heart attack
  • 1 fall from a window while directing a ladder and
    handline
  • 1 ruptured cerebral aneurysm during PT
  • 1 drowned during SCUBA dive

8
Routine fires/incidents...
  • ...they kill firefighters
  • ...they injure firefighters
  • Its the ones and twosnot the Worcester, MA

9
FSHR
  • Workgroup call by Secretary of Labor John
    OConnor.
  • Workgroup comprised of paid and volunteer
    representatives, including labor management.
  • Consensus Paid volunteer providers should be
    equally protected.
  • Chairperson Chief Roger Simonds.
  • Goal safety, emergency scene accountability and
    command structure that matches NFPA 1500.
  • Why prevent illness and injury.

10
FSHR
  • Accomplished without significant difficulty by
    most fire departments and rescue squads.
  • Recognize some Federal, State and local
    regulations affect operations now.
  • There are some costs (medical/fit testing).
  • Bottom line a safer environment for the
    emergency service responder.

11
Status
  • Responses from several organizations.
  • Reviewed and changes made where appropriate.
  • Medical component completed.
  • Added method for revisions.

12
Structure
  • 1. Purpose
  • 2. Scope
  • 3. Definitions
  • 4. Organizational statement
  • 5. Implementation Period
  • 6. Medical Standards

13
Structure
  • 7. Substance abuse programs
  • 8. Personal Protective Equipment
  • 9. Emergency operations
  • 10. Investigation of vehicle collisions and
    injuries
  • 11. Vehicle safety

14
Structure
  • 12. Tools/equipment
  • 13. Facility safety
  • 14. Workplace violence
  • 15. PIA/Critiques
  • 16. Revision to standard
  • Appendices

15
  • Purpose
  • to protect members during emergency
    operations.
  • Scope
  • All fire, rescue and EMS departments in the
    state.

16
  • Definitions
  • AHJ
  • Command Level Officers
  • Emergency responder
  • IDLH
  • Mayday

17
  • Definitions
  • PAR
  • Qualified Personnel
  • Rapid Intervention Crew
  • Senior Command Level Officer
  • Standard Principles of Risk

18
  • Organizational Statement
  • Statement or written policy defines the
    organizations purpose--what will it do?
  • Fight fire?
  • EMS?
  • Confined space?
  • High angle?
  • Swiftwater/underwater?
  • Guidelines in appendices

19
  • Implementation period
  • Develop a written implementation plan.
  • Remember some Federal, State and local
    regulations affect operations now.
  • ID compliance date with each element of the
    regulation.
  • Although not all adopted, be pro-active, get with
    it now!

20
Medical Standard
  • AHJ develops medical evaluation program
  • Supervising physician
  • Baseline evaluation for all
  • Aged based examination
  • Minimum requirements

21
Medical Standard
  • Specifics of evaluation provided
  • Collect data
  • Confidentiality
  • Reported either acceptable or unacceptable

22
Substance Abuse Programs
  • Establish policy
  • Includes entry and subsequent screenings

23
  • PPE
  • AHJ provides commensurate with the level of
    hazard and response expected
  • Train members on use and care
  • Inspect it annually
  • Provided and used

24
  • Respirators
  • Type and compliance
  • Fit testing
  • Refill in fragmentation chamber
  • Hydro test
  • Air quality

25
  • Structural Firefighting
  • NFPA 1971
  • EMS
  • NFPA 1999
  • Hazardous materials
  • NFPA 1991, 1992

26
  • High angle rescue
  • Under water and swiftwater
  • Wildland
  • NFPA 1977
  • Marine
  • Eye ear protection

27
Emergency Operations
  • General
  • Prevent injury or death
  • Adequate members assembled
  • Within organizational statement
  • Supervision

28
Incident Management System
  • Written
  • All trained in its use
  • Used in all activities-training, operations,
    special events

29
Incident Commander
  • All scenes, one in charge
  • Establish organization based on IMS adopted
  • Unity of command
  • Risk management

30
Incident Commander
  • At emergency scene the IC
  • assumes command, is identified,
  • performs size up with risk assessment,
  • initiates/maintains/controls communications,
  • develops strategic and tactical plan,
  • initiates personnel accountability,
  • reviews, modifies as required, and
  • continues, transfers, terminates.

31
  • Command Officer Training
  • All trained on AHJs system, including
    simulations using that community
  • Senior command officers-more advanced, but again
    based on expected response
  • Refresh annually on AHJ system use simulations

32
Personnel Accountability
  • Develop a system to include
  • Activation
  • Personnel Accountability Report (PAR)
  • PAR at specific times and at certain benchmarks

33
Health Safety Officer
  • Assign
  • Knowledgeable, compliance
  • Develop safety program for prevention
  • Scene safety officer

34
Emergency Scene Operations
  • Training
  • PPE
  • IC standby team
  • Entry team
  • RIC
  • Multiple RICs

35
Emergency Scene Operations
  • IDLH atmospheres
  • Interior- requires 2 out- for structures
  • Exterior- requires 1 out- car fires, dumpsters,
    etc.

36
Emergency Scene Operations
  • Basic Risk Management questions
  • Risk Life for Life
  • Risk Little for Property
  • Risk Nothing for Whats Already Lost

37
Emergency Scene Operations
  • Mayday
  • Develop policy for disabled, trapped, missing
  • Rehabilitation
  • CISM

38
Emergency Scene Operations
  • Communications
  • Plain English
  • SOP/G
  • Terminology
  • Use of IMS at all times

39
Investigating Collisions/Injuries
  • Adopt policies and procedures
  • Determine cause and provide recommendations for
    prevention

40
  • Vehicles, Tools and Equipment
  • Consider safety and health in specifications,
    design, maintenance, etc.
  • Facility Safety-
  • During renovation/construction of fire/rescue and
    EMS stations all work shall comply w/all
    applicable health, safety and building codes
  • Workplace Violence
  • Procedures to evaluate the potential

41
Post Incident Analysis Critiques
  • Adopt policies
  • and procedures
  • for conducting
  • PIAs and
  • critiques.

42
Revisions...
  • Prepared in writing by members of the Work Group
    to the Secretary of Labor Industry.
  • Workgroup meets annually to review.
  • Structure provided

43
  • Appendices
  • Provide support for various sections, give
    options, show examples

44
Comments Please!!!
  • Send your comments and suggestions via mail,
    e-mail, fax to your fire service organization
    representative by July 31, 2001.
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