L0954 All-Hazards Safety Officer

L0954 All Hazards Safety Officer

Please complete an AHIMT Course Application for this course and return to TEMA.Training@tn.gov with a copy to the appropriate Regional Coordinating Committee and attach all prerequisite documentation.

TLETA POST Approved for 2023

Course Description

The goal of this professional development course is to provide federal, state, and local-level emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of a Safety Officer in a Type III All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT).

The learner must achieve a minimum passing score of 75% on final knowledge assessments or demonstrate mastery on performance assessments or research assignments to earn the IACET CEU.
Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS Position Specific training shall be completed by personnel who will be required to gain a certificate of training and the credentials to function in an ICS Organization, such as an IMT, as a member of the Command, General Staff or as a Unit Leader. This criteria will be verified on the student enrollment request by endorsement of the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) such as the State/Tribal Training Officer or the course manager.

ACE: Level: Lower Division/Associate
ACE: Credit Hours: 2

Course Objectives

• Explain the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards to response operations.
• Explain the role and responsibilities of the Safety Officer in assuming the position and creating an attitude of safety on an incident.
• Identify the information that the Safety Officer must obtain when beginning work on an incident and potential source for obtaining that information.
• Contrast between a hazard and a safety risk.
• Identify techniques used to prioritize hazards for mitigation, as well as several types of mitigation and accident prevention.
• Develop an ICS Form 215A, Incident Action Plan Safety Analysis, given a scenario.
• Create an ICS Form 208 HM, Site Safety and Control Plan.
• Apply multiple methods of communicating safety risks and mitigations through the Incident Safety Plan, Assistant Safety Officers, Safety Messages, and Safety Briefings.
• Explain the Safety Officer's interactions with the Logistics Section (and its various sub-units) to ensure that personnel needs are safely met.
• Identify common unsafe actions, operations, situations, and safety risks during an incident.
• Explain the Safety Officer's responsibility in managing accidents and special situations that may occur during an incident.
• Explain the Safety Officer's role in disbanding the Safety Unit during incident demobilization and Closeout.

Mission Areas
• Respond

Prerequisites
The required prerequisites to this course are:

· IS-0100 An Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100
· IS-0200 Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, ICS 200
· E/L/G 0300 Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents, ICS 300
· E/L/G 0400 Advanced Incident Command System for Complex Incidents, ICS 400
· IS-0700 An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
· IS-0800 National Response Framework (NRF)

Other recommended (not required) courses:

· E/L/G 0191 Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface
· O 305 Type 3 AHIMT Training Course (US Fire Administration)
· O 337 Command & General Staff Functions for Local Incident Management Team (National Fire Academy)