Rescue services

Lawson, J. Randall, and Theodore L. Jarboe. Aid for Decontamination of Fire and Rescue Service Protective Clothing and Equipment After Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Exposures, NIST Special Publication 981. Washington, DC Government Printing Office, 2002. 

Rasmussen J., Svendung I., 2000. Pro-active Risk Management in a Dynamic Society, Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Karlstad. 

Swedish Rescue Services Agency. Alternative ways to Achieve Fire Safety. August 2002. See www.srv. se/funktioner/frameset/default.asp om id=73... 

Hand tools used in the fire and rescue service are often classified by their main function or their size. In general, a large hand tool would not fit in a standard tool box, whereas a small hand tool would. Most fire apparatus carries a supply of standard, everyday small hand tools such as wrenches, screwdrivers, and hammers. These tools are used for a variety of purposes. For example, if a fire occurs in an electrical breaker box, firefighters will need wrenches or screwdrivers to disassemble the box to check if the fire is out. 

In the context of reahzation of the conventional programs for chemical weapon (CW) destruction, chronic effects of subsymptomatic concentrations of RVX are of particular interest, since risk of exposure of personnel of the CW destruction facihties to chemical agents cannot be completely ruled out. In addition, members of the rescue service engaged in the decontamination process are regarded as a group at high risk of exposure. The difficulty of diagnosis of delayed effects and chronic intoxication with RVX relates to polymorphism of the clinical manifestations... 

A list of emergency phone numbers for company team members, immediate staff personnel, management officials, medical and healthcare officials, rescue services, firefighters, organizations providing assistance to emergencies and disasters, and police should be posted in prominent working places. 

Pre-hospital disaster care in France is controlled by two national response plans, called red (Plan Rouge http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Plan rouge) and white (Plan Blanc http //www. sante.gouv. fr/htm/actu/3 l 030814b.htm http // en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan blanc). The red plan concerns the rescue and evacuation of victims from a disaster site by the fire and rescue service. The plan provides for an overall on-site commander (COS) who controls a fire and rescue and a... 

Confined space training is required for authorized entrants. They must be thoroughly familiar with the space and its hazards, and they should be able to detect warning signs of over-exposure. They should be physically fit to be able to get out of the vessel on their own. This may sound contradictory to the main idea about the buddy system and rescue services. But, if you think about it, the idea is that a physically able person is less likely to get trapped in the CS than a physically challenged person. 

Rescue services may be provided by outside contractors specializing in that specific work. Generally, plant rescue personnel or outside contractors are selected in advance and are made aware of the hazards of the CS. They should be given all the pertinent information location, name of the vessel, permit procedures, list of hazardous chemicals, MSDS, etc. In many instances, companies decide to provide their own in-house rescue services. These employees will have received extensive training in CS rescues. 

Rasmussen and 1. Svedung, Proactive Risk Management in a Dynamic Society, Swedish National Rescue Services (2000) and J. Rasmussen, Risk Management in a Dynamic Society A Modeling Problem, Safety Science, v. 27, n. 2/3 (1997), 183-213. 

Rasmussen, J. Svedung, I. 2000. Proactive risk manc e-ment in a dynamic society. Karlstad Swedish Rescue Services Agency. 

Organisational RIFs (Level 2) are risk influencing factors related to the organizational basis, support and control of running activities in helicopter transport. These factors are related to helicopter manufacturers and operators, helideck/hehport operators, air traffic/navigation services and search and rescue services. 

Therefore the number of recorded deaths should be multiplied by a factor of more than one. This correction factor is based on the overall country conditions and system, such as the level of medical treatment and rescue services. In other words the correction factor is not based only on the number of days but it is also a country-specific. 

Severity index is another factor of interest in international comparisons. It was calculated for each ASEAN country in 2003 as the percentage of fatalities per casualty (fatal, serious and shghtly injured). Table 4.3 shows that severity index varies with a low percentage of almost 0.85 in Thailand and a high percentage of 29.84 in Vietnam and 11.92 in Malaysia. The severity index decreases with the better medical facilities and rescue services (number of hospital beds per person or the number of physicians). 

There are few indicators that are already widely used in international indices which will make RSDI easy to understand and more valid. The UNDP has considerable resources to decide which indicators to use in the HDl and determine best practices from different sources and countries. The examples used in the RSDI contexts and taken from HDI are Life expectancy (years) , Adult literacy rate and Gross domestic product per capita . However, Life expectancy alone is not enough to measure the health level. One needs to make the selection more specific. 1 therefore added severity index to this dimension (health level). As discussed earlier, the severity index decreases with better medical facilities and rescue services. 

The employer must ensure that employees that will be in or near a Permit-Required Confined Space (PRCS), for example employees who have duties specified by the applicable sections of this standard (entiy supervisors, attendants, authorized entrants, and rescue-service employees) acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the safe performance of these duties. This training must result in an understanding of the hazards in the PRCS and the methods used to isolate, control, or in other ways protect employees from these hazards. 

Verifies that the rescue service is available and the means for summoning the rescue service works. 

Another contaminated site in the UK is the Jersey airport, where the Airport Fire and Rescue Service released significant quantities of AFFFs to the envirmi-ment by fire-fighting trainings. The highest concentration of PFOS measured was 98,000 ng/L, however, concentrations up to 10,000 ng/L could still be measured in 2009 [72]. 

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