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    This document summarizes risks associated with training activities involving the use of breathing apparatus at the Letterkenny Fire Station training facility. It identifies several hazards including lack of emergency lighting, heat illness from working in hot environments, fatigue, delays in emergency response, slips/trips/falls, claustrophobia, inexperienced instructors providing wrong information, manual handling injuries, lack of appropriate PPE, lack of documented safe systems of work, unprotected electrical wiring, lack of emergency exit signs, fire, slip hazards from moss/low ducting, and uncontrolled heat in the fire room. For each hazard, it evaluates the likelihood and severity of risk, existing controls, additional actions needed to reduce risk, targeted risk

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    This document summarizes risks associated with training activities involving the use of breathing apparatus at the Letterkenny Fire Station training facility. It identifies several hazards including lack of emergency lighting, heat illness from working in hot environments, fatigue, delays in emergency response, slips/trips/falls, claustrophobia, inexperienced instructors providing wrong information, manual handling injuries, lack of appropriate PPE, lack of documented safe systems of work, unprotected electrical wiring, lack of emergency exit signs, fire, slip hazards from moss/low ducting, and uncontrolled heat in the fire room. For each hazard, it evaluates the likelihood and severity of risk, existing controls, additional actions needed to reduce risk, targeted risk

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    This document summarizes risks associated with training activities involving the use of breathing apparatus at the Letterkenny Fire Station training facility. It identifies several hazards including lack of emergency lighting, heat illness from working in hot environments, fatigue, delays in emergency response, slips/trips/falls, claustrophobia, inexperienced instructors providing wrong information, manual handling injuries, lack of appropriate PPE, lack of documented safe systems of work, unprotected electrical wiring, lack of emergency exit signs, fire, slip hazards from moss/low ducting, and uncontrolled heat in the fire room. For each hazard, it evaluates the likelihood and severity of risk, existing controls, additional actions needed to reduce risk, targeted risk

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    Breathing Apparatus Training

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    This document summarizes risks associated with training activities involving the use of breathing apparatus at the Letterkenny Fire Station training facility. It identifies several hazards including lack of emergency lighting, heat illness from working in hot environments, fatigue, delays in emergency response, slips/trips/falls, claustrophobia, inexperienced instructors providing wrong information, manual handling injuries, lack of appropriate PPE, lack of documented safe systems of work, unprotected electrical wiring, lack of emergency exit signs, fire, slip hazards from moss/low ducting, and uncontrolled heat in the fire room. For each hazard, it evaluates the likelihood and severity of risk, existing controls, additional actions needed to reduce risk, targeted risk

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    Location: Letterkenny FS - DL11 Training Activities - Use of Breathing Apparatus Countersigned: Risk Exposure Hazard Identified Persons who may be Exposed:

    Assessment By:

    Assessment Date: Risk Rating

    REF NO: TA01 After Risk Reduction

    Activity

    Existing Controls

    Likelihood

    Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Proposed Actions/Controls (Long/medium/short term)

    Likelihood Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Responsible Person

    Emergency Lighting

    Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Defence Serious Non Service personal injury Personnel Public Instructors

    Install adequate emergency lighting to allow all occupants safe egress in emergency situation. Compliance with ETCI 100/01

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Working in Hot & Humid Atmospheres Breathing Apparatus Crawls

    Heat Illness

    Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Defence Non Service Personnel Public Instructors

    Adhere to Brigade policy on rehydration, BA procedures, Abundant Supply of cool drinking water, Adhere to policy on working in hot and humid atmospheres, strict supervision by instructors. First aid kit including Oxygen therapy, Defibrillator and burns kit. Cooling trough.

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Fatigue

    Wholetime Lack of hazard Retained awareness Non Service leading to Personnel serious injury

    Written SOP to include a defined student / instructor ratio *, Instructor competence and vigilance

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Delay in response to Lack of adequate emergency emergency venting situation system leading to serious injury

    Wholetime Retained Non Service Personnel

    Make repairs needed to existing emergency venting system and ensure safe operation of same. *

    Assistant Line Manager

    Location: Letterkenny FS - DL11 Training Activities - Use of Breathing Apparatus Countersigned: Risk Exposure Hazard Identified Persons who may be Exposed:

    Assessment By:

    Assessment Date: Risk Rating

    REF NO: TA01 After Risk Reduction

    Activity

    Existing Controls

    Likelihood

    Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Proposed Actions/Controls (Long/medium/short term)

    Likelihood Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Responsible Person

    Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Slips Trips and falls Defence (hazards installed Serious Non Service for BA training personal injury Personnel purposes). Public Instructors

    BA training and procedures and supervision by BA Instructors during BA training. When accessed for any purpose other than BA training, adequate and appropriate information and supervision should be provided.

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Claustrophobia

    Wholetime Retained Non Service Serious Personnel personal injury Public Instructors

    SOPs to deal with rescue procedures for course participant in difficulties

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Breathing Apparatus Crawls

    Inexperienced instructors

    Wholetime Wrong Retained information, Non Service advice to class Personnel participants and Public lack of supervision.

    Experienced Instructors should be present during exercises and classroom training for both inexperienced instructors and students alike. As per current DFB SOPs, only qualified instructors may instruct in this training facility

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Manual Handling.

    Serious injury

    Wholetime Retained Non Service Personnel Public

    Training and supervision, compliance with Brigade policy on manual handling.

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Location: Letterkenny FS - DL11 Training Activities - Use of Breathing Apparatus Countersigned: Risk Exposure Hazard Identified Persons who may be Exposed:

    Assessment By:

    Assessment Date: Risk Rating

    REF NO: TA01 After Risk Reduction

    Activity

    Existing Controls

    Likelihood

    Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Proposed Actions/Controls (Long/medium/short term)

    Likelihood Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Responsible Person

    Lack of Appropriate PPE

    Wholetime Retained Non Service Personal Injury Personnel Public Instructors

    All exercises will require Full Firefighting PPE in the form of FlashHood, Gloves, Boots, Helmet, leg and torso protection suitable to protect the student. Pre exercise SOP on correct donning of PPE

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Breathing Apparatus Crawls

    Safe Systems of Work

    Wholetime Retained Near Miss/ Non Service Personal injury Personnel Public Instructors

    Written SOPs required on all exercises including equipment to be used, conditions to be created in the training Area and instructors/student ratio. Records of inspections and maintenance.

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Unprotected wiring.

    Breathing Apparatus, Residential training area

    Electrocution due to Unguarded mishandling electrical during BA installation at EP 1. training (unguarded RCD) exercises

    Wholetime Retained Instructors

    Trunking Relocation or guarding

    Assistant Line Manager

    Lack of adequate emergency exit signs

    Wholetime Retained Serious Volunteer/Civil personal injury Defence to persons Non Service during non-BA Personnel use Public Instructors

    Install emergency exit signs to S.I. 132 1994

    Assistant Line Manager

    Location: Letterkenny FS - DL11 Training Activities - Use of Breathing Apparatus Countersigned: Risk Exposure Hazard Identified Persons who may be Exposed: Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Defence Non Service Personnel Public Instructors

    Assessment By:

    Assessment Date: Risk Rating

    REF NO: TA01 After Risk Reduction

    Activity

    Existing Controls

    Likelihood

    Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Proposed Actions/Controls (Long/medium/short term)

    Likelihood Severity

    Overall Risk Rating

    Responsible Person

    Fire

    Death or serious injury

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    Overhaul, adequacy, and recorded maintenance of Firefighting equipment

    Assistant Line Manager

    Moss on Gangways, slip hazard Breathing Apparatus, Residential training area Low unprotected ducting on Gangways

    Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Defence Personal injury Non Service Personnel Public Instructors Wholetime Retained Volunteer/Civil Defence Non Service Personnel Public Instructors

    Recorded regular cleaning and maintenance

    Assistant Line Manager

    Head injury

    Impact protection, PPE and signage

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

    Uncontrolled heat in fire room off industrial corridor

    Wholetime Serious Retained Personal Injury Instructors

    Repair and recorded regular maintenance of temperature sensor. Written S.O.P. and records.

    Assistant Line Manager Course Directors and Instructors

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