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Chapter 11

• Establishing Response Standards

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Introduction

• Establish standard policies and procedures
• Draw upon the experience we have gained in an
  effort to make the next incident safer
• Value of sharing information is obvious when we
  are talking about firefighter deaths
• Important to explain the different terms we use

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• National standards for emergency response
  policies and procedures should be developed and
  championed

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• TERMINOLOGY
• Overview
• SOPs versus SOGs
• Specific words with specific meanings
• Maintain original intent
• Common ways of relaying information
• Cont.

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• TERMINOLOGY
• Policies and procedures
• Mission statements
• Policies
• Are the why
• Procedures
• Are the how
• Cont.

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• TERMINOLOGY
• Standard operating procedures and guidelines
• Ensures consistency, effectiveness, and
  professionalism
• Training tool
• Procedure a more rigid term
• Guideline a softer term
• Must address most possible scenarios
• Cont.

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• TERMINOLOGY
• Writing style
• Overview
• Purpose
• Revision history
• Personnel affected
• Cont.

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• TERMINOLOGY
• Writing style
• Policy
• Definitions
• Responsibilities
• Procedure

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Overview
• Create a system based on the different levels of
  applicability
• Series One (S-1), virtually all agencies
• Series Two (S-2), majority of agencies
• Series Three (S-3), specialized response
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series One (S-1 National)
• Emergency response
• Develop standards
• Define emergency
• Improve safety
• Procedures based on legal opinion
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series One (S-1 National)
• Emergency response
• Legal opinions differ
• Type of calls
• Apparatus
• Personnel responding
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series One (S-1 National)
• Apparatus positioning
• Proximity dangers
• Scene safety
• Protective barriers
• Textbooks for proper positioning
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series One (S-1 National)
• Command system
• First arriving units
• NIMS
• Expansion and
• interoperability
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series One (S-1 National)
• Risk management
• Risk-benefit analysis
• Tunnel vision
• Take human factors out of play
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series Two (S-2 Template)
• PPE
• EMS
• Communications
• Incident safety officers
• Emergency traffic
• Cont.

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• LEVELS OF STANDARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
• Series Three
• (S-3 Specialized)
• Overview
• Operations teams
• Officer promotions
• Special events

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• IMPLEMENTING THE STANDARDS
• Overview
• Policy collaboration
• FESHE
• TRADE
• Assembling
• Modeling
• Adoption

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Summary

• Fire and emergency services have been challenged
  on three different fronts
• The time has come for creating standard policies
  and procedures for many of our functions
• Break all policies into three different series
• Its vital that all SOPs/SOGs follow the same
  format
• Collaboration by interested parties can assist in
  the assembly and modeling of national standards

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