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)

Disciplines

• Emergency Management

Primary Core Capability