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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

What are the three main types of risk assessment relevant to incidents and operational training activities?

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  • Generic risk assessments (GRA)
  • Locally produced risk assessments
  • Dynamic risk assessment (DRA)
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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Whether to proceed with an activity is dependant upon the likely benefits to be gained. In a highly calculated manner, operational personnel will/may what?

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  • will take some risk to save saveable lives;
  • may take some risk to save saveable property;
  • will not take any risk to save lives or properties that are already lost.
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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Define the safe person concept

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“The right person, doing the right job, with the right equipment, at the right time”

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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

The safe person concept:

All operational personnel must be able to…

(5)

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  • identify hazards;
  • evaluate risks;
  • select SSoW;
  • implement action to eliminate or control risk; and
  • evaluate how effective that action is.
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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

The process of DRA is completed by undertaking which five sequential steps?

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(a) Evaluation of the situation, task and persons at risk;
(b) Select SSoW;
(c) Assess the chosen systems of work;
(d) Introduce additional control measures; and
(e) Reassess systems of work (SSoW) and additional control measures.

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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

When creating a tactical plan or strategy ICs must consider which 7 things?

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  • whether there is a need to take any action at all considering the benefit to be gained;
  • the speed and weight of attack;
  • the hazards and risks that can be reasonably foreseen and assessed;
  • the skills of the personnel and the equipment available to them;
  • the capabilities and limitations of personnel and equipment;
  • whether all of the above fits a planned scenario or could be reasonably adapted to the circumstances; and
  • Implementing and maintaining a safe system of work (SSoW).
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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Situations where the use of operational discretion may be appropriate include…

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(a) rescue a saveable life in the circumstances where implementation of the full policy would lead to an unjustifiable delay, resulting in the potential for greater injury or lives being lost;
(b) tackle a known small fire through a pre-emptive strike, where the adherence to policy would lead to delay and thereby create higher levels of risk for firefighters to extinguish a fully developed fire; and
(c) where no action by the Authority may cause the public to place themselves at risk and therefore escalate the incident (e.g., child in a lake).

 

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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Give an example of a priority message that must be sent where operational discretion is exercised.

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Where operational discretion is exercised a priority message describing the situation and actions being taken must be sent.

Example priority message: “From ….. at …… operational discretion in use, one firefighter entered canal to rescue child, TMO”.

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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Who will be informed when an ops discretion message is sent?

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This will inform monitoring officers the Operational Review Team (ORT) and other resources attending or monitoring, enabling them to offer additional support and guidance and start the evaluation process. A Senior Accident Investigator (SAI) will also be informed

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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

What are the 2 possible outcomes following implementation of Operational Discretion?

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  • The actions were justifiable and reasonable as the situation was unforeseeable and extant policy/SOP was not in place to achieve the desired outcome; or,
  • The actions were unjustifiable as the situation was foreseeable and extant policy/SOP would have provided a SSoW to achieve the desired outcome.
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Dynamic Risk Assessment - PN 0342

Topics to be discussed during post incident reviews (PRO, PRC)should include:

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  • the accuracy of the risk assessment;
  • the effectiveness of operational policies and equipment;
  • the success of the strategies or tactics applied;
  • the appropriateness of the strategies and tactics employed;
  • the level of knowledge and skills demonstrated by teams and individuals;
  • the effectiveness of SSoW;
  • the reasons why a modified system of work was successful;
  • identification of unforeseen hazards or risks; and
  • application of operational discretion - reasons for deviating from planned system of work.