FSLM 277 Incident Safety Officer (3 credits)
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the duties as written by the requirements of the National Fire Protection Administration (NFPA) 1521, Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer, 2002 edition. Course elements are designed to enable the student to identify and analyze health and safety aspects relating to their role as Incident Safety Officer in both emergency and non-emergency situations.
Course Content
A. Safety officer role
B. Safety concepts
C. Guiding regulations, codes, laws, standards and procedures
D. Designing an incident safety officer system
E. Professional development and mastery
F. Reading buildings
G. Reading smoke
H. Reading risk
I. Reading hazardous energy
J. Reading firefighters
K. Triggers, traps and working within incident command systems
L. Basic approach to ISO duties
M. ISO at structure fires
N. ISO at wildland and interface fires
O. ISO at hazmat incidents
P. ISO at technical rescue incidents
Q. Postincident responsibilities
Student Outcomes
1. Examine the safety officer role in fire departments.
2. Identify and explain the five parts of classic risk management.
3. Distinguish among the differences in regulations, codes, laws and guides.
4. Discuss the reasoning for preplanning the response of an incident safety officer.
5. Identify and describe the three areas that help perform the functions of the ISO.
6. List in order, the five-step analytical approach to predicting building collapse.
7. List the four attributes of smoke.
8. Identify the three steps in the reading of smoke process.
9. Define situational awareness.
10. Describe three methods to read risk at an incident.
11. Define hazardous energy and list four ways to categorize its status.
12. Define the four R’s of firefighter rehabilitation.
13. Identify four methods that will help the ISO trigger safety behaviors.
14. Identity and describe the four components of the ISO Action Model.
15. Examine the three dimensions that need to be defined during environmental reconnaissance.
16. Explain the three factors that influence fire spread.
17. Examine the strategic goals for the safety section at a WMD/terrorist incident.
18. Discuss several regulations that outline response requirements for tech-rescue incidents.
Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems. Fire Systems Risk Management Analyze the factors that shape risk and apply them to strategies for fire and injury prevention including fire risk reduction prevention, enforcement, investigation, research, and planning Fire Service Research Apply scientific methods of inquiry and research to arrive at reasoned decisions regarding fire service leadership and administration.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
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