Strategy of Fire Fighting & Protections, Loss Prevention and Emergency Response Management
This course provides preparation for command of initial incident operations involving emergencies within both the public and private sector. Topics include incident management, fire-ground tactics and strategies, incident safety, and command/control of emergency operations. Upon completion, students should be able to describe the initial incident command system as it relates to operations involving various emergencies in fire and non-fire situations.
COURSE OUTLINE
The Mechanisms of Fire Extinguishment
- Water Flow and Form
- Fog: Theory and Practice
- Solid and Straight Streams
- Firefighting Foams and Additives
The Development of Firefighting
- Ladder Company Functions
- Staffing a Company
- Staffing Trials
- Establishment of Rescue Companies
- Influence on the Fire Service by the Insurance Industry
- Progress in Firefighting
- European Methods
Firefighting Strategy
- Personnel Requirements
- Apparatus Response Time
- Establishment of a Command Post
- Span of Control
- Incident Command System
Firefighting Tactics
- Tactical Considerations
- Location of the Fire
- Extension Probability
- Types of Fires
- Analysis of the Fire Situation
The Action Plan – Working At A Fire
- Finding the Fire
- Rescue, Search, Entry, Ventilation
- Protection of Exposures
- Safety
- Communication
- Salvage, Overhaul, Extinguishment
- Cooperation of Other Agencies
Fire ground Control and Coordination
- Stress Situations
- Coordination
- Tactical Errors and Weaknesses
- Application of the Tactics
Safety On The Fire ground
- Building Collapse
- Burns, Smoke Inhalation, Electrocution
- Safety and Building Collapse
- Heat Hazard and Clothing
- Clothing Limitations and Problems
- Getting Lost
- Critical Incident Stress
The Fire Building – Hindrance And Help
- Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
- Structural Failure
- Building Collapse
- Mill Construction
- Collapse from Water
Sprinkler Operations
- Checking the Supply
- Sprinkler Flow
- Automatic Wet-Pipe System
- Automatic Dry-Pipe System
- Deluge Systems
- Non-Automatic Systems
Ladder Company Operations
- Some Common Mistakes
- Ladder Company Positioning
- Necessity of Assigning Tools
- Use of Ground Ladders
- Need for Scaling Ladders
Engine Company Operations
- Hydrants
- Tandem Pumping
- Hydrant-to-Pumper Layout
- Hose Operations, Large-Diameter Hose
- Hydrant Selection
- Lines Taken From A Pumper
- Restricted Inlet Flow
- Delivering The Water
- Interior and Exterior Attack
Pre-Fire Planning
- Stress on No variables
- Post-Fire Analysis
- Evaluation Standards
Major Fires
- Logistical Factors
- Command Structure
- Staging Area
- Fire Officials of Disaster Area
The Everyday Fire
- Plastics, Oil Burners
- Chimney, and Attic Fires
- Mercantile, and Taxpayer Fires
- Multiple-Dwelling Fires
- Apartments
- Factory Fires
Special-Problem Fires
- High-Rise Fires
- Transportation Fires
- Hazardous Materials
- Aircraft Fires
- Fires In Places of Worship and Assembly
Emergency Response Management
- Identifying the key components of a Safety Management System (SMS)
- Emergency control
- Team and personnel training
- Resources and organization of the team and support facilities
- Investigation
- Safety Management Systems
- Relevant key elements that make up an integrated HSE Management System – SMS in action
- Planning for efficient emergency response and crisis management
- Establishing a major accident prevention policy
- Incident develop or crisis
- Structuring your organization’s approach to crisis and emergency management
- The warning of the public in an emergency
- Justifying the role of industrial emergency response resources
- Methodology – Risk based scenario reviews
- Alternatives conclusions/findings
- Responding to the emergency
- Activating emergency response plans
- Undertaking crucial decision
- communications and problems encountered to bring the situation to a speedy conclusion
- Contracting out emergency process
- Choosing the right contractor
- Back up resources required