During emergency incident operations, team members and responders face the most challenging aspects, both physically and psychologically, of their vocation.
Ensuring safe operations at incidents can reduce team member and responder injuries and fatalities and limit exposure to health hazards. Paragraph (p) of the proposed rule is based on current industry practices, as reflected by NFPA consensus standards and FEMA’s “National Incident Management System” (NIMS), and would not present new requirements for most Emergency Service Organizations (ESOs) and Workplace Emergency Response Employers (WEREs).