FST 307 - Incident Safety Officer

Credits: 1
Instructional Contact Hours: 1

Focuses on the increasing awareness to a wide variety of emergency situations. Teaches what a safety officer at an incident needs to know using scenarios to convey instructional points.

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Lecture Hours: 15 Lab Hours: 0
Pass/NoCredit: Yes

Outcomes and Objectives

Demonstrate selected skills to function effectively as the safety officer within the fire service environment.
1. Identify safety and unsafe actions and operations
2. Identify four immediate safety hazards and ways these hazards will affect the Incident Action Plan
3. Examine a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and identify unsafe actions and suggest changes in procedures
4. Describe documentation task to be performed by the Incident Safety Officer
5. Describe when an operation or part of a un-operation should be terminated