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Book SynopsisEmergency Incident Risk Management: A Safety & HealthPerspective
Jonathan D. Kipp, Murrey E. Loflin
While risk management techniques have been successfully used toreduce the potential for physical harm to the public, these provenmethods, strangely enough, have not been applied to one of the mosthazardous environments of all fire fighting operations. The resultis that more than 100,000 injuries occur to fire fighters eachyear. Emergency Incident Risk Management shows fire chiefs, fireofficers, safety officers, and risk managers for the first timeanywhere how to develop and implement a comprehensive riskmanagement program that can sharply reduce on-the-job fatalities,injuries, and harmful exposures while minimizing property andequipment damage. Expanding on the information presented in theNational Fire Protection Association 1500 Handbook, this thoroughguide covers every phase of effective risk management fromassigning roles and preplanning, through all the steps in a solidrisk m
Table of ContentsADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION.
Overview.
Introduction to Risk Management.
Accident, Injury, and Illness Data.
Law, Codes, and Standards.
COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN.
The Management of Risk.
Risk Identification.
Risk Evaluation.
Establishing Priorities.
Risk Control.
Program Monitoring.
Training of Personnel.
EMERGENCY INCIDENT RISK MANAGEMENT.
Pre-Emergency Risk Management.
Principles of Emergency Incident Risk Management.
Incident Safety Officer.
Personnel Accountability.
Incident Management System.
Post-Incident Analysis.
INTEGRATION.
Making It Happen.
Appendices.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
